[New-Poetry] Bad blog reviews

[TheOldMole]

I'm for "falsely new." There's far too much genuineness in the world.

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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