Ange Mlinko on A Prairie Home Companion

July 2, 2006

Mlinko asks:

Why does this feel like some sort of joke at the expense of poets, from beginning to end?

Or am I reading too much into another meaningless non sequitur of a role for interchangeable starlets?

I answer, in order: “because you’re part of that group of overly-sensitive, post-avant, Sillimanite poets who are so often predictable in their responses to the mainstream” and “yes.”

The danger in putting oneself too much into the frame is that you run the risk of making the piece all about you. And this assessment of Keillor’s film is all about Ange Mlinko (and, to no small extent, putting her adolescent poetic self on a pedestal).

But, and this is an important note, Ange’s poetry is generally awesome.

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