[New-Poetry] Camlle Paglia

[Bob Grumman]

Chris Lott wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 13:28, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> If 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?
>   
I feature newness as commentator/publisher because too few others are.  
I neglect excellent unnewness because so many others /don't/ neglect 
it.  If I were doing a 200-page anthology for a big publisher, I'd have 
nothing but what I call burstnorm poetry.  To make up for its absence in 
other anthologies.  If I were allowed to do a thousand-page anthology, 
I'd try to cover every kind of poetry, including kinds I didn't much 
like.  Above, though, I was talking about a Paglia-type anthology--that 
is, one confined to the un-new.  I think I could do a better one than she.

--Bob

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