[New-Poetry] Bad blog reviews

[Halvard Johnson]

I suppose that you *might* find folks who'd agree with you on these points,
as long as they're content to allow *you* to define "first-rate,"
"second-rate,"
"third-rater" and "genuinely new."

Beyond what I've just said, I wouldn't care to comment.

Hal, a non-jumper

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

 Before anyone jumps on me, I concede that I got carried away, again.: there
> *have* been first-rate American poets who have gotten money in the past
> few years from the Establishment.  The problem is that no first- or
> second-rate American poet who is doing anything genuinely new has.  And a
> lot of third-raters have.
>
> --Bob G.
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