sock poet

[Paul Frank]

"we all know that sock poetry is some of the worst bullshit ever to be
written on this planet. i won’t even go into sock music. or sock
painting. ok, so not everyone is artistically significant. but worthy
beings should at least have social conscience. sadly, socks have
nothing of that sort. "

<http://campcatatonia.org/article/37/and-now-for-a-completely-different-perspective>


Paul Frank
Translator
Chinese, German, French, Italian > English
Espace de l'Europe 16
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
paulfrank at bfs.admin.ch
paulfrank at post.harvard.edu




On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a PhD in English but have no idea what this means. The quotation
> appears on the back cover of  Mark W. Van Wienen's _Rendezvous with Death:
> American Poems of the Great War_ (Champaign: U. of Illinois Press, 2002):
>
> "Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by
> IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to
> those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson,
> Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay."
>
> A weird misprint? Â I don't have immediate access to the book, but next
> time I'm in the libe I'll have to "check it out."
>
> JL

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