[New-Poetry] Tony Hoagland

[Jeff Newberry]

Well, I can't imagine letting your crankiness bother me.

I thought the essay it was drawn from was well-written and interesting.  I
also found (forgive me) inspiring.

No--I'm not interested in an argument.

Best to you, Bob.

Jeff Newberry


On 12/5/06, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
>  "Modern consciousness may indeed be splintered, but it is one function of
> poetry to fasten it back together—which does not mean to deny or repress its
> complexity.   When poetry can name the parts and position them, when it
> draws us out of the speedy, buzzing fog that is selfhood and modern life,
> our sense of being alive is heightened and intensified.   How strange it
> is that when I read a particular poem, which brings the world into focus for
> me, that I can feel my own life come into focus.  I was already part of
> the world, I know—but the unifying, clarifying impact of a poem (whatever
> form that takes) moves me to a deeper, and more succinct sense of
> being-in-the-world.  Deeper and better than before, when I was only lost
> in it."
>
>
> Tony Hoagland, from *The AWP Chronicle*, Volume 39, Number 1
>
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
> Well, I can't start the day without being crabby but the above seems to me
> mostly bs, although with some truth--and just the kind of thing one would
> expect a mainstream American poet to say.
>
> --Bob G.
>
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