[New-Poetry] Influential Poets, The Five

[James Cervantes]

On 1/1/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Why must there be "ranking"?
> >
> > - Jim
>
> Same reason there's ranking of food, say.  There's good food, so-so food,
> bad food, poison, and so on.  But if you have time, go ahead--ignore
> rankings and read every everything.
>

So how would you rank Whitman, Longfellow, Pound, Cummings, Williams
in respect to each other?

-- Jim
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