[New-Poetry] Re: number of books / speaking of no ears

[Bob Grumman]

> To eliminate the metaphor, to replace it with what it replaced, to  put 
> ourselves in Hell, to acquit ourselves of reading 3900 books-per- year, 
> the nub is:
> Do we have the aesthetic sense to recognize and to select the work of 
> Orpheus when it comes?
> Are we deaf to the music of it?  Is it lost for lack of recognition?
> Are we able to distinguish the beautiful?  Does it matter?
> Are we completely lost?  Will we always be?

We need critics willing to explore, and letting us know what's out there. 
But first we need editors and publishers willing to publish such critics. 
(I'm not such a critic--although I've covered all the schools of poetry 
Logan, for instance, has, as well as the man he hasn't.  But I would have 
become one had a New Criterion been willing to let me regualrly write for 
it.)

--Bob G.