[New-Poetry] Muldoon

[Halvard Johnson]

50 old? Give me a break.

Hal

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On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Jason Quackenbush wrote:

> I liked a lot of the poems in Muldoon's year, although now that you  
> mention it, it did skew a bit old. A couple of the poets in it were  
> several years dead from old age as a matter of fact. But it did  
> strike me that he was making an attempt to be broad with it,  
> including Armentrout, as well as Lyn Heijinian and Clayton Eshleman.  
> There were some good poems in it. But then, there were also a lot of  
> poems that were by poets I'd never heard of before and whose poems I  
> didn't like. But then, it's "Best American Poetry" and you kind of  
> just learn to accept that, at least for the years I've been around  
> and paying attention. I think there's an irony in that statement  
> that could possibly say something illuminating about American  
> Democracy as well, but it's too late at night to unpack it.
>
> -JFQ
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Ron Silliman wrote:
>
>> I think it was Howard Junker who looked at Muldoon's edition in the  
>> "Best American Poetry" series and noted just what a high percentage  
>> of contributors were over the age of 50 -- I think that's very much  
>> what you will continue to see at the New Yorker. He did ask Rae  
>> Armantrout for work, tho she's been in the journal before, and is  
>> over 50, but that is about as far afield as I expect it to get.
>>
>> Ron
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