[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

[jfq at myuw.net]

yawn. I've had enough of anti-intellectualism. particularly in the arts.


On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 jforjames at aol.com wrote:

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> http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2007/07/17/Arts/On.The.Edge.Not.Of.The.Edge-2924347.shtml
> On the edge, not of the edge
> By: Julie Urbanek - The Daily Iowan
> Posted: 7/17/07
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> Perplexing metaphors, incomprehensible allusions, that feeling of alienation: American poetry is notorious for its failure to appeal to the masses.
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> "[Poetry] still has to give the reader pleasure; it has to compel rather than confuse," Douglas Goetsch said in describing his fellow American poets, who often work to create ambiguity. "I hope American poetry is done with the cult … It may be a mystery, but not a puzzle."
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> Teacher by day and writer by night, the unconventional poet invites readers into his work with a straightforward yet mystical style that doesn't require a literary genius to decode.
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> "It's greed," Goetsch said. "I want everyone who can possibly relate to my poem to be invited into it."
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