Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of Détente for Creative-Wri ting Programs

[Anny Ballardini]

and Eugenio Montale said:
... and lucky we are that we cannot go back to those [very dark] times!


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Graham, David <GrahamD at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Also, the "standardization" charge is meaningless without illustration.
> Furthermore, if one wanted to argue rather than merely assert it, that would
> require some effort.  Certainly it would require more than citing a bland
> poem or three, since mediocrity is the default mode of all poetry in every
> era.
>
> For decades now I've read many essays lamenting the sad state of
> contemporary poetry without finding one that did more than blow generalized
> smoke, or at best reiterate the eternal truth that genius remains rare.
>
> Donald Hall (a couple decades ago now) reminded us how these "poetry is
> dying" essays have always been with us, interestingly enough citing examples
> from the early 20th century by critics who could not recognize the greatness
> of the real geniuses writing at that time.
>
> Hall believes that what motivates such diatribes is often a Golden Age
> mentality. Poetry was always "better" back in some vaguely remembered prior
> era--an opinion that is hard to maintain if one actually hauls out the
> journals of 1918 or 1818, searching for the wheat amid all the chaff.
>
>
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> David GrahamGrahamd at Ripon.edu
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> On Jul 3, 2009, at 9:31 AM, "AlMaginnes at aol.com" <AlMaginnes at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Like I said before, Mark, you're making the same arguments that have been
> made for years. Which might hold some water if all these academic professors
> you deride wrote the same kind of poetry. If you are as tuned into poetry as
> you claim to be you should be aware of the incredible diversity of styles
> out there.
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