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

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/3/2006 6:33:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:

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.  



Bob, sorry not to explain fully...that's not mine. I just snipped that  bit 
off of the Poetics List because I found it an amusing way of looking at  the 
world of contemporary poetry...
a novel take on 'schools of poetry'. 
 
Finnegan
 
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