[New-Poetry] Can poetry have greatness?

[TheOldMole]

Loved the Nemerov.

David Graham wrote:
> *History of a Literary Movement*
>  
> After Margrave died, nothing                     
> Seemed worth while. I said as much  
> To Grumbach, who replied:      
>  “The oscillations of fashion
> Do not amuse me. There have been
> Great men before, there will be
> Other great men. Only man
> Is important, man is ultimate.”
> I can still see him sitting there,
> Sipping level by level his
> Pousse-cafe. He was a fat man.
> Fat men are seldom the best
> Creative writers.
>  
> The rest of us                                              
> Slowly dispersed, hardly                             
> Ever saw each other again,                         
> And did not corespond, for                    
> There was little enough to say.                 
> Only Impli and I                                          
> Hung on, feeling as we did                         
> That the last word had not
>  
> Finally been said. Sometimes                        
> I feel, I might say, cheated.                         
> Life here at Bad Grandstein                             
> Is dull, is dull, what with                             
> The eternal rocks and the river;                 
> And Impli, though one of my                     
> Dearest friends, can never,                               
> I have decided, become great.
>  
> -- Howard Nemerov.  /The Collected Poems./  U Chicago Press, 1977.  
> [originally in /The Image & The Law/, 1947]
>
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