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

[Bob Grumman]

  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)
  Yeeks, a taxonomy has snuck into new-poetry without my awareness.  Waz goin' on?  Can you explain your terms, James--I can't find any post where you did, and I have trouble figuring out what you might mean by them.  

  --Bob G.


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