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

[Anny Ballardini]

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


a good morning laugh, thanks

  From: David Graham 
  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:48 AM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: Aesthetic Diversity in Poetry Today







  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?






  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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