[New-Poetry] Monk Trane

[Halvard Johnson]

Well, as you know, David, I agree. There's plenty of room for
both, and both can be enjoyed and valued. Let a thousand
flowers bloom, as someone once said. For every Bach, let there
be a Beethoven. For every Mendelssohn, a Schoenberg. Etc.

(Nothing personal about the quote below; those are currently
set to randomize.)

Hal

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On May 9, 2006, at 12:03 PM, David Graham wrote:

>
> On May 9, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> I enjoy Simic too. But it's too bad he got stuck in that very
>> recognizable style he found fairly early.
>>
>> Hal
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>
>
> And a more serious response to this comment, which is indicative of  
> one of those eternal head-scratchers in aesthetics.  I very much  
> enjoy Yeats, Rich, Lowell, and others who are restless,  
> stylistically, always setting forth for pastures new, etc.  But I  
> definitely want to make a place for the other kind of poet, who  
> hones and practices a signature style over many years.  In fact, I  
> often want to celebrate that, since it seems to me that critical  
> response has always paid quite enough attention to novelty and the  
> sturm-und-drangers who advertise their changes loudly.
>
> After all, the signature poets would include, just f'rinstance,  
> such figures as Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and, in our day, Bishop,  
> Wilbur, Levine, Ashbery, Stafford, and Clifton.  Not such bad  
> company, I say.
>
> There is, of course, no need to choose sides.  As every jazz writer  
> seems to have said, Thelonious Monk in 1947 sounds pretty much the  
> same as he does in 1962, while Coltrane changes rapidly from record  
> to record.
>
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