[New-Poetry] Bad blog reviews

[Chris Lott]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Judy Prince
<jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:
> To reprise the original discussion:  Schiavo and Schroeder nailed it,
> scraping lotsa skin as they did, but hitting all the bases with a real
> sensitivity to what makes some kinds of bad poetry.  Maybe S & S are the New
> Bob Grumman.

There is but one BobG....

I don't know that Schiavo nailed anything.. the stink of a personal
agenda is palpable and some obviously wrong facts and absurd
extrapolations in the one area  I actually know something about (the
Corea poem) makes me suspicious and undermines my confidence.

One thing I am sure of with Bob is his intellectual honesty. I
disagree with Bob, but I admire him and learn from him... whereas I
don't think Schiavo's review is wholly honest.

Not to mention that I've seen and liked a number of Dickman's poems
(most of which are nothing like his New Yorker poems, which certainly
weren't my thing). So insofar as Schiavo is making aesthetic judgments
I find him further suspect. But on that score reasonable people can
and do disagree.

c