[New-Poetry] Re: Aesthetic Diversity in Poetry Today

[David Graham]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
> But only dolts claim that only the new is good.
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See Pound ("make it new," etc.).  The whole project of modernism is  
based on a dramatic rupture with tradition, and it's unclear to me  
that postmodernism has altered that basic oppositional equation.

As for writing a poem that *entirely* repeats the past, good luck  
with that.

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David Graham wrote:

> I wonder too.  And these arguments about "the new" are getting  
> fairly long in the tooth, aren't they?
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But only dolts claim that only the new is good.  What any poet worth  
a nickel should want to do is write a good poem that does not  
ENTIRELY repeat previous poems (except for trivialities like subject  
matter, themes, specific rhymes, etc.).
--Bob G


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