[New-Poetry] Re: New-Poetry Digest, Vol 59, Issue 7

[maryann]

Speaking as one who's simply eager to find more good poetry I don't know 
yet, I'd like to ask Bob, or anybody else, to name some names of the 
poets writing better poems than Duffy.( For the record, I agree with Bob 
that "Prayer" uses resonant images admirably.)

 I'm an American and find it difficult (and lately, expensive) to 
purchase UK-published books), so I 'd appreciate recommendations before 
I plunk down cash.

Maryann

Bob wrote:
> I'm a little unclear here, Dave.  Sounds to me like Duffy is doing what 
> I think poets should do (at least some of the time) and I almost always 
> try to do--pick accessible, emotionally-resonant images and make a poem 
> out of them.  For instance, I've more than once centered my boyhood 
> treehut in poems.  Very standard--but it seems to me it's not the 
> iimages that count but how you use them. 
> My problem with Duffy's poem is not that it isn't a good poem, but that 
> I feel there are hundreds of poets around making poems as good as it, 
> only a few of whom are getting the publicity and money for it that she 
> is, and dozens making better ones, none of whom is getting any publicity 
> and money for it. 
>
> --Bob
>
>   

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