[New-Poetry] Re: Kleinzahler's bad rep

[Anny Ballardini]

I wouldn't like to speak for too many, but from the little experience I have 
of the "broader" world of pseudo-poetry, your words apply to multitudes.

From: "Chris Lott" <chris.lott at gmail.com>


>I bet August-K would happily throw down with K-Ryan if it meant
> retaining the outsider crown...
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 16:22, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
>> I'm a long-term fan of Kleinzahler's poetry, but he's a real bar-room 
>> bore
>> when he talks about poetry.
>> The "outsider" schtick gets old fast when the bad boy in question is
>> lavishly promoted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (his publisher since 1995: 
>> 5
>> books to date), sucks up the grant money by the gallon, and has taught, 
>> for
>> instance, at Iowa Writer's Workshop, Brown University, Berkeley, 
>> Stanford,
>> and the University of Texas.
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