[New-Poetry] Head scratch

[TheOldMole]

It doesn't really scan all that well, either.

David Graham wrote:
> Sometimes I just scratch my head at the Academy of American Poets. 
>  Today's daily poem offering, from Richard Kenney, strikes me as a 
> most clunky bit of doggerel.
>
> It's titled "A Pot of Tea."  Here's are 2 stanzas; see what you think:
>
> Ginseng or the scent of lymph
> Or consequences queasing
> Into wide awareness, whence,
> Like an engine seizing
>
> Society remits a shudder
> Showing it has feeling,
> And the divers all have shaving cuts
> And the future’s in Darjeeling—
>
> And here's the whole thing, if you're thirsty for more:
>
>
> http://www.poets.org/sponsor-book-profile.php/prmBookID/512/prmSponsorID/167?utm_source=poemaday_040908&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content_link&utm_term=conent_sponsorbook 
> <http://www.poets.org/sponsor-book-profile.php/prmBookID/512/prmSponsorID/167?utm_source=poemaday_040908&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content_link&utm_term=conent_sponsorbook>
>
> You certainly won't want to miss the rhyme of "earring" with "Hermann 
> Göring," in any case.  Yes, I know that this is probably intended to 
> be gloriously Byronic and breezy, but my ears catch mostly the huffing 
> of someone who's trying too hard.
>
> *This* is the long-awaited book from Kenney--winner of both the Yale 
> Younger & a MacArthur?  This is the best Knopf can find to publish 
> these days, and the Academy to spotlight?  Kenney's written some very 
> fine verse, and I hope the rest of his new book contains nothing but. 
>  But. . . . 
>
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Tad Richards
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford