[New-Poetry] Poetry bestsellers

[Bob Grumman]

She did all this differently from other mainstreamers?  Maybe beat them to 
the punch?  I haven't read many of her poems, but those I have read seemed 
like a lot of other contemporary mainstream poems on the very standard 
subjects she seems to me to be writing about.

--Bob G.

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>I think perhaps it's more a case of what she's done. Her book House  of 
>Light and other early works
> arrested the inner attention of readers with the way she wrote about  the 
> natural world.
> She was able to write with great simplicity that worked by way of a 
> layering of the senses,
> in which a child-like surprise and delight was at work within real  craft. 
> Obviously readers
> don't mind that she's still writing the same poem over and over. When 
> you're on a good thing...
>
>
> On 07/10/2006, at 7:58 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:
>
>> I understand Collins's popularity, but how about Oliver's?  What's  she 
>> doing that a hundred other mainstream poets aren't?
>>
>> --Bob G.
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