[New-Poetry] quote poet unquote

[jforjames at aol.com]

Bob,
Don't pat yourself on the back too hard, I learn even from plants, rocks and single cell organisms. 

But I'll take this opportunity to plug my blog, which tends to a quote from a poet or
poetics-related quote every 4 or 5 posts, with my musing on the subject interspersed.
http://ursprache.blogspot.com/

The recent quote I posted form Geoffrey Hill comes for a book of poetic statements
by various contemporary and modern poetry... 
Dont Ask Me What I Mean
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Ask-Me-What-Mean/dp/0330412817
and it's nice in that it features very few Americans, concentrating on the British, Scotch,
Irish poets and their thoughts about their craft. Some, like Mr. Garner, are bit reluctant
about the whole idea of speaking about one's personal poetics. 

Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
Sent: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:15 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] quote poet unquote




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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