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

[Chris Lott]

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.

One other thing... am I the only person that gets woozy when people
make the "there's no such thing as capital "G" great anymore" argument
while effectively arguing that there *is* in all but the orthography?
Fried's protest is a bit watered down by her parenthetical.

My own position depends on the side of the bed I woke up on, the hour
of the day, the phase of the moon and who knows what else.

c