Michel Delville (del VIL), Critic
(pronunciation of respondent's name) [delvil]
Delville lives at Alllée du Beau Vivier 38, 4102 Seraing, Belgium. His e.mail address is mdelville@ulg.ac.be; his phone number is ++ 32 4 3374386.
He has two books coming out in 1998: The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Law of Genre (Gainesville FL: UP of Florida), and J. G. Ballard (Plymouth: Northcote House).
He considers the following contemporary poets of importance:
Henri Michaux, Ron Silliman, Vasko Popa,
Miroslav Holub, Francis Ponge, Madeline Gins,
Paul Nougé, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Pierre Alferi,
John Cage, Peter Redgrove and Rosmarie Waldrop.
As for poets of the past, he lists Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Milton and Dante as the heavyweights for him.
He notes four critics as being important to him: Marjorie Perloff, Roland Barthes, Frank Lentricchia and Gérard Genette.
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