[New-Poetry] Influential Poets, The Five

[TheOldMole]

Disagree -- some of Muddy's best songs were written by Willie Dixon, who I'd put on the list. Dixon was the first great crafter of different personae in the blues, especially in the songs he wrote for Muddy and Howlin' Wolf. But Chuck Berry would definitely go on my list. 

In my songwriting class, I would have my students read, listen to,critique and write in the style of the masters -- Robert Johnson, Ira Gershwin, Chuck Berry, Merle Haggard, etc. One semester I asked the class -- defining a major artist as someone who changes his or her art form, so that everyone after can't help but deal with his influence -- who, if anyone we've studied, would meet that standard. The class was unanimous -- Chuck Berry. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joseph Duemer 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp, Views 
  Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:14 AM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Influential Poets, The Five


  Any list of influential American poets that dosen't include Muddy Waters is, at best, incomplete.

  jd


  On 1/1/07, James Cervantes < cervantes.james at gmail.com> wrote:
    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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