[New-Poetry] Simic's laurelled tenure

[Halvard Johnson]

Chris said "mere mortal," Bob. You don't
count.

Hal

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  obscures vision."
		--Charlie Chan

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On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

>
>
> Chris Lott wrote:
>> On 9/2/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  I would define "eclectic" in this case very simply: "showing  
>>> interest in
>>> (and promoting) all of the following kinds of poetry."  Then I  
>>> would list
>>> all the kinds, making use of my list of schools of poetry that no  
>>> one seems
>>> to consider of any value but I.
>>>
>> Do you expect any mere mortal to manage that? I get that this is an
>> ideal of being eclectic, but that's my point-- no one can promote it
>> *all* and since they can't they will always be subject to accusations
>> of not being truly eclectic and diverse.
>>
>> c
>>
>
> Well, I've done it myself.  But I don't mean all varieties of  
> poetry, just the ones on my list (and maybe a few I missed)--I  
> mean, basically, a reasonably complete range of contemporary  
> poetry.  And I probably shouldn't have used the word, "promote,"  
> for I meant more like "acknowledge the existence of and give  
> occasional examples of."  I would want Mr. Eclectic to take all  
> criticism for ignoring some kind of poetry seriously but not expect  
> him to accept all kinds of material someone claims to be poetry  
> worthy of acknowledgement (though he could at least state that so- 
> and-so brought pharmaceutical sandpaper poetry to his attention).   
> Within reason--as ignoring most forms of language poetry, and all  
> varieites of visual and sound poetry, is not.
>
> I would prefer he mention poetry already mentioned all over the  
> poetry world as little as possible, too, since it doesn't need his  
> help, but I certainly wouldn't make that mandatory.  I would, on  
> the other hand, want him to comment a lot on his favorite kind of  
> poetry on the grounds that he probably knows a lot about it.
>
> --Bob
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