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

[jforjames at aol.com]

It seems Zapruder is?asking critics?to do a lot of hand-holding. And, as far of critics who have mounted?
defenses of difficult work, has he?missed all the excellent and thoughtful?essays of Majorie Perloff? 
Finnegan

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From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
Sent: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:55 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Does no one write good poetry criticism?


Michael Snider wrote: 



2009/3/25 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>

Except Bob Grumman?

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=186047





Maybe not!




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?




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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