[New-Poetry] Does Poetry Have A Social Function?

[Joseph Duemer]

Wimin's panel looks a lot like the Iraq Study Group to me. A group of
eminences whose conclusions are known before they begin. With neither side
of the debate, ultimately paying any attention to them. Political Kabuki at
Poetry Magazine.


On 1/2/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
>  Does politics have an aesthetic function?
>
> I was the one who shot at Wiman, although Roger Daly apparently did, too.
> I found it risible that so retrograde a mediocrity as Wiman could be called
> an expert in poetry.  I like the idea of panel discussions on knotty
> questions but don't see what good they are if only stasguards are invited to
> participate in them.
>
> --Bob G.
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-- 
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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