[New-Poetry] 2 New Poems of Mine

[Bob Grumman]

They're at http://comprepoetica.com/newblog/blog01762.html.

The top one I do not think very innovative although it has the 
incoherent non-words that Barry seems to think the height of the new new 
very new.  It takes a step beyond what the Ashbery poem is doing--but a 
step that is probably a common one for many language poets. 

Chris, don't tell me it's not a poem; that would be taxonomization.

The other Judy will say is not a poem and I will want to know what in 
that case it is.  I don't know how innovative it is, but it definitely 
uses techniques not in wide use /ever/.  How can anyone say it is not 
more innovative than most poems, even the best poems, are>  Which is not 
to say it is effective.  I really like it, but have no idea how others 
will take it, and do believe it's how others take a work, not what its 
maker thinks of it, that determines whether or not it is effective.

I may be in a flow zone, after all--but going the wrong way. . . .

--Bob
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