[New-Poetry] Influential Poets, The Five

[Jeff Newberry]

Hear, hear!

Jeff

On 1/1/07, Joseph Duemer <duemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ~ Salt River Review:  http://www.poetserv.org
> > ~
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> > ~ http://home.earthlink.net/~jvcervantes/
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