[New-Poetry] 'The turn' has its own blog

[Bob Grumman]

I read Theune's blog entry and got little out of it, so I went to the 
essay he mentions in it.  So far I've only read a few paragraphs, but 
already I've decided his "turn" has little to do with my clang or 
anything else in my poetics.  He quotes Jarrell, who said, "Every 
successful poem starts from one position and ends at a very different 
one, often a contradictory or opposite one; yet there has been no break 
in the unity of the poem."  I would ask what successful piece of writing 
of any kind does not do that?  Good essays, particularly.  Certainly any 
kind of story.  Theune so far seems to me advancing a truism, little 
more.  But I'll read on. 

I have one disagreement with Jarrell: I feel most effective poems DO 
have a break in their unity--a break that the poem mends.  Maybe they 
all, do.

--Bob