[New-Poetry] Re: thanks, David Graham

[Chris Lott]

On 12/16/06, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
> Hey, I have that gene, too, Chris!  That I may not like him as much as you,
> and certainly not as much as David, doesn't mean I can't enjoy his work.
> For instance, I just finished reading Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest.  The
> characters are cardboard bad guys and good guys (who seem to have inspired
> Chester Gould), the plot is preposterous, but I enjoyed it a lot.  I think I
> will never understand this either/or attitude about taste--i.e., you either
> find nothing to complain about in an artist or you dislike him--that so many
> poets have.

I don't understand that binary attitude either... the preponderance of
my affection lies on the opposite gulf from your own, but I feel the
same way about any number of post-avant/etc poets and the feelings of
their admirers. It's too often an all or nothing game on either side.

My reading of Transtromer has been very scattered, so I wouldn't even
attempt any kind of generalization. I look forward to spending some
time with the collection...

c