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Addendum: In Defense of Poetry
This thread might be worth reviewing... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2009
Mr. Pinsky: a few questions, please...
Dear Mr. Pinsky, Welcome to Poems Fray...which hasn't been the most sedate of places of late, explaining in part why I haven't been on it (the other part has been insane busy-ness). I hope you have the time to answer some questions I've been longing to ask you for a long time. I don't know how much you've read the Fraysters' comments in the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2009
Re: Poetry - Defending the absurd
An interesting argument comes higher up in the same Newsweek article [emphasis mine]: Poetry, for all its merits, has no program or volume to rival the current popularity of Oprah and Harry Potter, but even so, the decline of its already modest following is noteworthy. Some critics and readers claim that most poetry today is too cloistered and ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009