[New-Poetry] quote poet unquote

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Tue Jun 3 23:15:12 EDT 2008



JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/poetry-read-it-when-youre-drunk/
>  
> June 3, 2008,  10:58 am
> Poetry: Read It When You’re Drunk
> By Dwight Garner
>  
> Books of quotations about writing and writers are things I usually 
> flee from — the sanctimony level grows toxic almost immediately.
>
> Dennis O’Driscoll’s new book, “Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary 
> Quotations on Poets and Poetry,” is an exeption. All right, there’s 
> some guff here. (”Poetry is … speech with a song in it, the song made 
> by words made to dance” — Robert Nye.)
See, James, you're learning from me!

--Bob
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