[New-Poetry] Daisy Fried's letter re Logan's O'Hara review in NYTBR

Chris Lott chris.lott at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 17:06:02 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:51,  <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/books/review/Letters-t-2.html?ref=review
>
> But Logan's condescension toward O'Hara's "genial fanatics" (those of us who
> think O'Hara is certainly one of a small handful of great 20th-century
> American poets) suggests that he doesn't really understand the kind of
> poetry that rejects the idea of modernist-style capital-G Greatness.

But wait-- isn't that snippet a perfect example of the genial
fanaticism that Logan-- ah, forget it...

c



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