[New-Poetry] Does no one write good poetry criticism?

[Bob Grumman]

I got an e.mail saying this post didn't make it, so I'm resending it.  --Bob

Michael Snider wrote:
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> 2009/3/25 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org <mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org>>
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>     Except Bob Grumman?
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>     http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=186047
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> Maybe not!
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> Does anyone else think it's a little weird that the guy associates 
> "narrative" and "conservative" on the one hand and "lyric" and 
> "experimental" on the other?
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> Mike, bewildered.
Strange piece, for me.  I kept thinking I got the writer's drift, then 
lost it.  Oddly, I was thinking about narrative and lyric as two 
distinct kinds of poems--but certainly not as conservative and 
"experimental."  Narrative poets do seem to me more conservative than 
other poets, including lyric poets, but most lyric poets seem almost as 
conservative.  The language poets are contemptuous of both narrative and 
lyricism.  I'm big on lyricism but not on narrative. 

I think I may well be the sort of critic Zapruder is calling for, but I 
think it'd take him thirty years to realize it if he seriously wanted to 
find his kind of critic.  He seems not to have much of a clue as to 
what's going on in poetry.  Or poetry criticism.

--Bob
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