[New-Poetry] Against National Poetry Month

[amy king]

Oh, well, if Bernstein's idea was inspired by Howard's, or even worse:  if there is a lineage or genealogy to this kind of thinking about poetry's commodification, then certainly the ideas and the questioning itself are complete bunk!  Might as well throw out most philosophical texts too, since philosophers generally respond to texts that preceded them, weighing those texts' applicability, echoing them, building on them, etc -- and hey, throw out any other discipline and thinking that didn't emerge from a vacuum, just born by the hand of god or a 'muse', etc. 

But just how does Howard's "Garboing" apply to and nullify the contents of Bernstein's essay again?

JforJames at aol.com wrote:      In a message dated 4/14/2007 10:33:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  amyhappens at yahoo.com writes:
 Because    anything written more than eight years ago has nothing to say to me ... or any    of of us!

Actually, the essay is still quite relevant, and    unfortunately, Bernstein's sentiment hasn't been widespread enough, in any    sense of the word ... 
 
 Bernstein could be said to have copied Richard Howard who published a very  similar piece in Harpersa about 10 years ago. Both decry the  commercializing initiatives of National Poetry Month, tho Richard  Howard's piece was more along the veing of what I'd call 'Garboing':  "I just want to be left alone" (says the famous poet, feigning a need to  retreat to some secret bower where the true mysteries of poetry reveal  themselves). 
 Finnegan
 



       
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