[New-Poetry] Van Doren and Frost

[Bob Grumman]

> On 7/20/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>> > Davya Sobel and other popular science writers can easily overflow
>> > rooms even here. Is popularization of science the equivalent of pop
>> > poetry by Jewel and MC Rhymez-A-Lott?
>> >
>> > c
>>
>> It would depend, I suppose.  The best popular science writers would equal
>> mainstream poetry, I'd think.  Applied Science is relatively well-covered 
>> by
>> the media.  Even pure science does well.  But pure mathematics doesn't 
>> get
>> much coverage.
>
> I didn't mean the reception of science popularizers I meant the
> intellectual endeavour. You are obviously dismissive of pop poetry,

No, I'm saying it's different from serious poetry, and I include mainstream 
poetry in that category.



do
> you feel the same way about what authors like Sobel do?

I don't know what Sobel lectures on.  Is he the guy that got the parody into 
a sociology magazine?  I'm on his side there.  I'm all for science lectures 
or whatever.  I'm just saying that one that other scientists would take as 
seriously as serious poets take serious poetry would draw
no better than poetry.  It's very tangled.  So many variables, like who's 
doing it, what buzz topic may be involved, sulture vultury, etc.


--Bob