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to MaryAnn, RE the PoBiz
I saw your post on blahblahblahblahblahblase's thread before it was torn down.I understand poets using Slate and other venues to sell books. I thought one of Pinsky's goals was to expand the horizons of poetry, poets, and poetry readers. Some one like Billy Collins gets more attention for having been a Poet Laureate in one month than lesser ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 9, 2009
OPP EXTRA: Other Pinsky Poem / To Television
I finally got curious about the man who presents each week a poem for us to read, dissect, deconstruct, critique and possibly enjoy. Robert Pinsky says he was influenced by the rhythm and tension of jazz and he tries to create that same feeling in his poetry. If the jazz that influenced him is the discordant, uneven phrased cacophony of Bebop, ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 2, 2009
Reflections on Pinsky's essay & reading of Moore's "Poetry"
Ms. Marianne Moore was a poetC'mon now, admit it, you know itDid rewriting her verseMake it better or worse?And in quoting herself, did she blow it? Write image-'n airy words on a pageFor illusion, today, is the rageStill a real frog will dieIt must eat a real flyClever words do not make one a sageNow I wonder, beyond Earthly graveDid she take ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 30, 2009