[New-Poetry] Re: WEPD Banana

[Bob Grumman]

Barry Spacks wrote:
>
> I maintain that poems may pass the Excellencey 
> test even if only some of the test's criteria help to build its case.
>
> Regarding "Bananas," a sort of Zenish jeu d'esprit, working it 
> through the whole WEPD word-grinder becomes
> a joke about a joke. The poem must, I feel, go elsewhere
> for justification.
I'll try the check-list on it, Barry, but not for a while.  First, the 
Housman.  Interesting essay on the Andrews, by the way.  It's a jump-cut 
poem, though, not a language poem--unless "The Wasteland" is.

--Bob