tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post1717988247588386281..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: No, the plagiarist is not the author of the wikipedia articles she plagiarized Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-50573324555246871132017-10-12T09:09:44.539-05:002017-10-12T09:09:44.539-05:00I think the idea that JB did not write her own mem...I think the idea that JB did not write her own memoir is fascinating. She had an idea for a commercial book about poetry but was too busy to write it herself. She came up quickly with a few anthology pieces and had an assistant do most of the work. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-91260189136818097842017-10-12T08:51:01.099-05:002017-10-12T08:51:01.099-05:00Armantrout though is the only language poet among ...Armantrout though is the only language poet among these 72 friends of literature. I'm not seeing other language poets on my Facebook feed jump to the defense here. (I am friends with Watten, Silliman, Bernstein...). <br /><br />She taught at UCSD for years too, didn't she, so isn't she an academic as much as any of them? (As you point out yourself many of them are embedded in Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-69674902349503411882017-10-12T05:59:09.929-05:002017-10-12T05:59:09.929-05:00I wonder if language poetry's somewhat complex...I wonder if language poetry's somewhat complex relationship to academic criticism makes it easier for Armantrout to defend Bialosky. I've sometimes gotten the sense that language poets don't like academia very much, despite (or perhaps because) they are so embedded in it and dependent on it. In their minds, they are likely to dismiss a plagiarism accusation as merely a "property Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-70153761238373424092017-10-12T05:57:52.261-05:002017-10-12T05:57:52.261-05:00That's always the most ridiculous excuse: &quo...That's always the most ridiculous excuse: "I didn't plagiarize. I didn't even the write book that has my name on it!"Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-85390884786406332782017-10-12T05:42:25.198-05:002017-10-12T05:42:25.198-05:00Lots of people don't write their own work--the...Lots of people don't write their own work--they sketch out ideas and have someone else write them up (which always means also develop them, as you will surely realize). I know this because of trying to do an edited collection one time; what I discovered was jaw-dropping.<br /><br />It is possible that the people who wrote this book for this person weren't very good at it and plagiarized Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com