[New-Poetry] NatPoMo

[Jeff Newberry]

Jason,

Thank you for posting this.  I'll second Bob's yesses with my own yes.

Jeff Newberry

On 4/14/07, Jason Quackenbush <jfq at myuw.net> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Can't see that I said or suggested that, Mole.  I just pointed out that
> > the poetry Bernstein attacks is easy listening compared to the kind he
> > likes. But I would say that less people are going to like challenging
> > poetry than easy listening poetry, just as less people are going to like
> > calculus than arithmetic or Ingmar Bergman than As The World Turns.
> >
> > --Bob
>
> I think that's a very good point, and one that doesn't get made often
> enough in conversations like these. Also, I think it's worth noting that
> even
> though some poetry is easy listening, being easy listening doesn't make it
> prima facie bad. i mean, i like to think of myself very much in the
> tradition of the otherstream (a word i hadn't paid much attention to
> before today, but that i like quite a lot and plan to use quite a bit) and i
> like
> the poetry of that movement. At the same time there are poets i don't like
> as much, and there are some mainstream poets that I like quite a lot. I
> would, for example, much rather read a book by BH Fairchild than I would
> read one by Susan Howe. And that's not saying that I think Fairchild is a
> good poet and Howe a bad one. I think they're both brilliant, but I enjoy
> the one more than the other. I think a lot that gets lost in the camps of
> difficult vs accessible, and mainstream vs otherstream is that there are a
> lot of people doing good work in both traditions. It's easy to get bogged
> down in the sniping from both sides. While I think there's value in
> Bernstein calling out Official Verse Culture, or Ron Silliman criticizing
> the
> School of Quietude, and I disagree strongly with some of the
> anti-otherstream comments that have been made by poets like Collins and
> Kooser, it
> doesn't mean that we can't all get along. I mean, at least we're not all
> writing Harlequin Romances.
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