[New-Poetry] Tony Hoagland

[Jeff Newberry]

Whoops.

I meant (forgive me):

I also found the essay (forgive me) inspiring.


Jeff Newberry


On 12/5/06, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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longer than knowing even wonders."
—William Faulkner, Light in August


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