[New-Poetry] Frost on the edge

[Bob Grumman]

I've long considered David Orr perhaps the worst mainstream critic of poetry around--as you no doubt know, David--or would guess.  The latest evidence of that is that he goes to Marjorie Perloff, "a professor emerita at Stanford," to find out about "21st-Century Modernism," like a good NY Times critic should.  Here's a question: if Frost was innovative, what American poet was not?  Follow-up question, if you can name one: why not?  Frost was a great poet, and I've always loved his prose about poetry.  But he was not innovative--because he invented no new way of doing anything in poetry, just used conventional ways of doing poetry better than just about anyone else.  

--Bob G.
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