Sunday, March 11, 2007

Poetry Wars

Dana Goodyear's long, strange article about The Poetry Foundation receives a reply from David Orr, poetry editor of The New York Times Book Review. The good news: poetry is worth fighting about. The bad news? I'll leave that to your judgement.

Posted by A Reader at 10:19 AM

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Ludwig Richter said...

I enjoyed Orr's article, unlike Goodyear's long, almost unreadable piece. Here's my favorite sentence in Orr's article:

"This occurs in part because the magazine has to take Big Names, but many Big Names don’t work in ways that are palatable to The New Yorker’s vast audience (in addition, many well-known poets don’t write what’s known in the poetry world as “the New Yorker poem” — basically an epiphany-centered lyric heavy on words like “water” and “light”)."

March 12, 2007 at 12:33 PM

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