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Re: Another Pepsi challenge
MaryAnn: We've faced such Self-Important Poems and their Self-Important Authors all too often here on Poems Fray, much more so in the past than currently, but all too frequently when Mr. Pinsky has put up. Rabbit, a few weeks ago when Robert Pinsky presented his monthly classic poem, he was available to all posters for, I think, four whole ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 23, 2009
Re: Good Grief MaryAnn
Hi MaryAnn, To be fair, and as I tried to make clear at the outset, it's not the poem I disrespect, nor the poet -- neither as poem qua poem nor as poet qua poet. The poem is worthy enough and the poet good at the craft (at least IMO-FWIW). It would be foolish for me to try to engage such a poem at the level that someone like Paul Breslin does. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009