[New-Poetry] Bishop's drafts cause uproar

[TheOldMole]

Well, not much can do Bishop any good at this point. Dead, and all.

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From: "Michael Snider" <mandolin at mac.com>
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>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 6:21 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen the whole Vendler argument against...has others
>> read it?  (There is just about a paragraph or two on the New  Republic's
>> online site.) Vendler seems to be arguing that the book is engaging
>> in 'false advertising'...that the pieces published in the _Edgar  Allan 
>> Poe_
>> collection were never meant to see the light of day. But it would seem
>> that the state of the manuscript copies, evidence from letters, the  way
>> the material was organized, etc., should be able to tell a scholar or
>> careful editor something about how Bishop felt about an unpublished 
>> piece.
>> And certainly there is precedence for books tracing the successive 
>> drafts
>> of famous poems...so I don't know what the gripe would be about that.
>>
>> A poem, obviously a successive draft, organized with other
>> poems in similar state in a binder or folder of some kind, poems
>> sent in a letter to another poet (like M. Moore) for comment, etc.,
>> may very well be 'finished' (or abandoned per Auden via Valery)
>> but, for this or that reason remained unsuited for collection.
>> A few scribble lines from a notebook or on a lipsticked stained
>> cocktail napkin might be stretch to call 'unpublished'.
>> Finnegan
>>
>
> The entire review is online here: http://www.powells.com/review/ 
> 2006_04_06
>
> It seems entirely sensible to me; Iv'e looked though the boojk a  number 
> of times at bookstores and not bought it once--and I love  Bishop's 
> poetry. Of course particular scholars might need access to  this sort of 
> material, but I think it does Bishop no good.
>
> Mike S
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