[New-Poetry] Taking Kooser's measure

[Roger Day]

and this doesn't apply to the uk?

On 8/30/06, David Bircumshaw <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I must admit I am finding this all hard to take on board, but, Rochelle,
> 'Mary Oliver will last' ????
>
> What on earth are you talking about?
>
> The problem is quite simply that because the USA became the world's major
> economic power post 1945 an assumption came with it that it must have major
> poetic figures, as there was so much money sloshing around in the US higher
> education system, the two things do not necessarily equate.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rochelle Nameroff" <rnameroff at earthlink.net>
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views"
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Taking Kooser's measure
>
>
> > Mary Oliver will last.  And Allen Ginsberg is still a major poet, both
> > in production and influence.  "Howl" is as great and as important as
> > "The Wasteland."  James Wright, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath and Anne
> > Sexton have also created significant bodies of work and influence.
> >
> > Shelley Nameroff
> > On Aug 28, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
> >
> > >  And I was calling for a list of major poets only
> >
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