[New-Poetry] Frost on the edge

[Anny Ballardini]

Hi Jason,

you are the same Jason who received so many points from me on the Buffalo 
for your mail on Derrida, aren't you? I am referring to the following:
"that poetry itself is boring crap written by stentorian dead white guys 
about nature, death, and other 'heady' topics in vague and unmusical ways"

Derrida makes of death one of his turning points,
see his thorough deconstruction of Rousseau and language.
I don't think David and Bob were talking of Frost before, David was talking 
as David talks and Bob as Bob does. It is a little complicated to understand 
but you will get to it as soon as you know them better, the same stone is 
different and will always be according to one or to the other. It is 
fundamentally a game in this playground, the same sonnets written by Bob 
show it, as some very good poems by David.



From: "Jason Quackenbush" <jfq at myuw.net>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:41 AM


>i meant you're on the side that wants to shore up robert frost's reputation 
>as a great american poet. i think frost is dull and highly overrated. I 
>also think think if one is looking at a overview of american poetry and 
>it's geneaologies, his influence has resulted in much more bad than good. 
>This contrary to Billy Collins and his ilk's assertion (see poetry 180 
>introduction and elsewhere) that it is the fault of the post/avant camp 
>that poetry has declined in cultural currency over the last hundred years. 
>If that decline is anybody's fault, it's robert frost's, the popularity of 
>his boring poetry being a signal to the casual observer--who may begin and 
>end his or her encounter with american poetry when he or she reads stopping 
>by the woods on a snowy evening in high school--that this is the nature of 
>all poetry and therefore that poetry itself is boring crap written by 
>stentorian dead white guys about nature, death, and other 'heady' topics in 
>vague and unmusical ways.
>