[New-Poetry] Billy hates 'cicadas'

[James Cervantes]

On 8/17/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/DDH5RBT9Q2.DTL
>
>  Jon Carroll
> Friday, August 3, 2007
>  There is always ferment in the world of poetry, probably because there is
> rarely money in the world of poetry (absent the eccentric bequest), so
> turmoil is the only recreation available. Here David Lehman, the general
> editor of the Best American Poetry series, lays it out in his preface to the
> 2006 edition:
>
>  "Some poets share a resistance to popularity - other people's popularity,
> above all - though they might bristle if you called them elitist. It's a
> problem that afflicts all of us to some extent. We say we want real readers,
> who buy our books as an act of choice, yet should one in our party escape
> the poetry ghetto, we tremble with ambivalence, as if having real readers
> means a sure loss in purity."

He has a point.  Most of my readers seem to be virtual.

-- Jim
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