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

[Anthony Lawrence]

And Muldoon? Where would you place him?

On 04/09/2006, at 3:36 AM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> 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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Anthony Lawrence
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