[New-Poetry] Against National Poetry Month

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/15/2007 5:37:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
amyhappens at yahoo.com writes:

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?
Amy,
I'm not certain poetry book sales have reached a level that would even  
justify a term like 'commodification'... 

I wanted to make the point that Bernstein was taking on  an easy target 
(Nat'l Po Month/Academy of American Poets) and was not  even the first to get there.
Finnegan



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