[New-Poetry] Re: frost

[David Baratier]

>>>"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."
   
  Get your facts straight sparky! The experimental "camp" in American poetry has not even been around 100 years. Most place it with the viewing of the Armory show and the break from meter exhibited by those who viewed and wrote poems afterward, primarily: Stevens, WCWilliams, Marianne Moore. Even Pound thot Frost admirable when they met 2 years before the Armory, hoisted and forced him upon a publisher even. 

Frost' influenced some great poets, Jeffers, J. Berryman, James Wright; how does one assess it was "more bad than good?" Nearly all of the best selling poets of all time are a much better example of harm to the craft: Jewel, Billy Corrigan, Leonard Nimoy, Suzanne Sommers. In fact my memory is Ferlinghetti and one other were the only "real" poets of the top ten.
   
  Collins' work is Robert Bly and Jim Tate mixed together, what could be more instantly post/avant and SOQ than that?
   
   


Be well

David Baratier, Editor

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