[New-Poetry] mean spirited bias

[Barone, Dennis]

I read the obituary for Peter Viereck in the Times and then saw it posted on this site.  I came across the Viereck obit while looking for Gilbert Sorrentino's.  I wanted to see what the Times said, but at first there was no obituary and then one ran late.  It was mean spirited and quoted people who had nothing good to say about Sorrentino.  The one for Viereck was of a completely different sort and quoted the author himself at length.  I recall that when Robert Creeley died for some reason that couldn't just have been by accident quoted another poet who said of Creeley, "the trouble with his short poems is that they are not short enough."  Why, out of all the millions of words written and said about Creeley, did the Times include this quotation?  Why did run an obituary of Sorrentino late and very clearly a biased one, too?

Dennis Barone
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