[New-Poetry] Camlle Paglia explains how she saved poetry

[Bob Grumman]

TheOldMole wrote:
> I've lost track. Is Wilshburian like Iowa Plaintext, or is it more 
> like Bunburying?
>
How annoying that no one has yet defined the word for you, Mole.  
Wilshburia is a narrow portion of the contemporary American poetry 
continuum near its right end.  It begins, to the right, with the poetry 
of Wilbur and the new formalists and ends on the left with the poetry of 
Ashbury and Ashbury clones.  The poetry of the Iowa Plaintext Lyricists 
is somewhere in between.  The name is an amalgamation of "Wilbur" and 
"Ashbury."  I coined after reading some academic who'd edited a 
collection of "best" American poetry, and said he was open to all 
poetry, for--yow--he admired the poetry of both Wilbur and Ashbury.  
This may have been as long as fifteen years ago, but I've seen similar 
boasts of broadness several times since.  Not to mention my arguments 
with people claiming the Wilshburian John Logan is widely read in poetry. 

--Bob G.