[New-Poetry] hate

[Bob Grumman]

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> The recent plaint posted by Eileen Myles on the Harriet blog 
> (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/05/i-hate-poetry/), 
> provoked me to create a list of the kinds of things related to 'a life 
> in poetry' that tend to exasperate and to vex us to point of angering 
> us against poetry. This is a provisional list, feel free to add on...
>  
> Being ignored by and large by the larger culture. The obscurity of the 
> poet.
Being ignored by and large by the minute culture of poetry people.

You seem to have gotten most of the others, Jim.  Another you missed is 
those who think poetry is not beautiful writing but politically strong 
writing.

I'd better stop.  More are occurring to me. Just one: all the poets 
contemptuous of attempts to understand poetry, their hatred of critics, 
their belief that intuition is all.

Oh, gotta do this one for Barry: poets who think innovation is 
everything.  And those who think it of little or no value.

--Bob
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