[New-Poetry] Re: American Poets Project

[David Graham]

Well, Bob, I'd venture to guess that in the present case, "make a  
buck" is close to being literally accurate.

The LOA is a nonprofit outfit, and I very much doubt anyone is  
getting rich (even Rich!) keeping Muriel Rukeyser's work in print,  
much less truly neglected oddballs like Kenneth Fearing and Samuel  
Menashe, who in any other context you would likely praise for their  
outsider status. . . .


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On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:51 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

>
> I'd like to offer another rave recommendation for the wonderful  
> American Poets Project put out by Library of America.  If you  
> haven't seen these books, they are small hardcovers of selected  
> poems by various dead Americans, most introduced by fellow poets.    
> Rukeyser is edited by Rich; Edward Hirsch does Roethke; David  
> Lehman does Ammons, Elizabeth Alexander does Brooks, etc.
>
> The retail price for each is about $20, and I gather there is some  
> degree of subsidy from the estate of James Merrill to produce the  
> books.
>
> No project that gives living mediocrities a chance to make a buck  
> off dead poets can be praised too highly.
>
> --Bob G.
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