[New-Poetry] our Nobel poetry drought

[Anny Ballardini]

There is an inborn idea that poetry is easiest. Much more compelling to 
write a book of say 3- 6- 900 pages with action and movement and characters 
that /hear hear/ can recognize one another... That poor nobel whatever did 
slope down quickly at my eyes.

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] our Nobel poetry drought


>I don't think it's more faded than in 1996.
>
> JforJames at aol.com wrote:
>> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/index.html
>>  # 2007 - Doris Lessing 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html>
>> # 2006 - Orhan Pamuk 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html>
>> # 2005 - Harold Pinter 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html>
>> # 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html>
>> # 2003 - J. M. Coetzee 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html>
>> # 2002 - Imre Kertész 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.html>
>> # 2001 - V. S. Naipaul 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.html>
>> # 2000 - Gao Xingjian 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.html>
>> # 1999 - Günter Grass 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html>
>> # 1998 - José Saramago 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html>
>> # 1997 - Dario Fo 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.html>
>> # 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska 
>> <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.html>
>>  You have to look back to Szymborska over a decade ago to find a poet. 
>> Not that some on the list didn't dabble...but is this a sign of poetry's 
>> fading fortunes?
>> Finnegan
>>
>>
 -- 
> Tad Richards
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