[New-Poetry] Poetry bestsellers

[Bob Grumman]

From: "Anthony Lawrence"

>I think perhaps she did do it differently. She was able to write in a 
>sentimental way
> and get away with it, at least with many, many readers. The ice was/ 
> is/very thin in a lot of her poems,
> yet despite my ambivalence towards much of her work, I've gone back  to 
> some poems.
> Compared to Collins, who drives me mad with his poems about writing 
> poetry, when Oliver
> is self-referential her subterfuge often throws a smoke screen over it.


Thanks--I gotcha, I think.  I was thinking (as usual) of differences of 
technique or subject rather than of tone or personality (which are as 
valid).

--Bob G.