[New-Poetry] Against National Poetry Month

[TheOldMole]

I do think it's complete bunk, but not because Bernstein was or was not 
inspired by Howard, any more than I would say to you, or anyone else who 
agrees with Bernstein and Howard, that oh, well, if Bernstein said it, 
that must be why you believe it's true.

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> 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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