[New-Poetry] Dark Horses

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Sat Dec 6 20:02:24 EST 2008


JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> It's that time of year when some of us like to post the titles of 
> books we've enjoyed during the year.
> (Consider that an invitation.)
>  
> A few weeks ago we were talking about Paglia's /Break, Blow, Burn/, 
> and her claim to have
> sought out poems off the beaten track of traditional anthology's 
> tables of contents. Well
> here's a book that really does that: /Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked 
> Poems/. It's an eclectic
> collection and the editors certainly tried to cover the aesthetic 
> waterfront.
One maybe visual poem by a big-name visual artist is nice but I bet all 
the poets asked to pick a poem were Establishment poets.

--Bob
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