[New-Poetry] Camlle Paglia

[Chris Lott]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 13:28, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:

> I were asked to write a book like Paglia's but limit my appreciations to
> conventional poetry, I'd deal with many more contemporary poems than she
> had.  I'd dump many of the older poems to make room for them.  Not because
> the newer poems were better but because I see little point in
> re-appreciating standards.

I was being tongue-in-cheek, but since you value newness so much,
wouldn't you feature the standards that were at least new once rather
than contemporary followers that have, in your scheme as I understand
it, never been new at all?

c