[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Bob Grumman]

Chris, doesn't it bother you at all that when you denigrate poets like 
Saroyan, you sound just like the poetry-readers a hundred years ago 
talking about free verse?  While I'm writing you, let me thank you for 
inviting me to define "organic poetry," but I think "organic" has been 
subjected to too much abuse to be resuscitated.  But I /have/ defined 
around it somewhat as when I divided poetry into classiformular and 
idioformular, defining the first as poetry adhering to a known form, the 
second as poetry each specimen of which finds its own unique form.  The 
mechanical, in some respects, versus the organic, in some respects.

--Bob
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