[New-Poetry] Another analogy to explain the aesthetic divide

[JforJames at aol.com]

I'd argue that there are therefore at least three groups, the Socs (Jorie  
Graham, 
Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, Sharon Olds, Glyn Maxwell etc), the  Greasers(Paul 
Hoover, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein, Rae Armentrout, etc), and  the 
folks who think that there is a difference between a Soc and a Greaser  but 
who claim to be neither one nor the other(Bill Knott, Dean Young, David  
Lehman), but somehow elevated above the rumble. When I was in highschool,  
kids like that were called Dorks because they didn't have any friends. Or at  
least no friends who had the kind of clout that a Soc or a Grease might  have.

(clipped from a post to the Poetics List)
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