Wow Candice!
Could he really mean what he said about Goia's 'Summer Storm'? Sheesh!
I admit I did pick up a book by Fenton once, from a sale table, & even at
that, after a glance at a few pages, put it back.
Taste, eh?
I will still recommend, as an antidote, one of Guy Davenport's essays (I
admit I place Davenport right up at the tope in the many genres he
practices with such grace & intelligence): 'Do You Have a Poem Book on E.E.
Cummings?' (from his masterful collection, _The Geography of the
Imagination_). A precursor, sure, but still dead on & deadly.
The fellow seems to know very little about British poetry, either, if it
comes down to that...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
He saw the dark as a ragged garment
spread out to air.
Through its rents and moth-holes
the silver light came pouring.
Denise Levertov
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