[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[jforjames at aol.com]

Boy, Bill really got his knickers in knot(t) over that award. Last week I read Silliman's thoughtful recounting of his process in picking the winner. It seemed a model for judging contests at any level.

I can understand some pique on aesthestic grounds. It's fair to ask if Saroyan's poems are novelties. ?But I like the idea that a different kind of poet got the award. So many of these prizes leave one shrugging. Safe, predictable picks.

Knott's rebuke of PSA and Silliman 's judging reminds me of Donald Justice taking exception to Simic winning the Pulitzer with book of prose poems. As if the prose poem were some kind of invasive species, injurious to native poetry.

Finnegan


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From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
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Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, for his *Complete Minimal Poems*. ?Judge was Ron Silliman. ?Read about it here:



http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/




(Scroll down to 4/18)




Read a blistering attack on all the above here:




http://billknott.typepad.com/billknott/2008/04/20/index.html







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