Hi, Michael,
Yes, I found the "critique of slowness" aimed at Gioia by attribution to
unnamed "campus poets" who constantly "crank out" new collections one of the
oddest aspects of Lind's piece, given how energetic Gioia is. He's nearly as
active in one sector of US poetry as David Lehman--who "cranks out" a poem
every day!
Cheers,
Candice
on 7/7/01 2:01 PM, Michael Snider at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> That "hilarious article" is almost exactly correct, at least about US
> poetry, except that Dana Gioia isn't as slow a writer as the author
> thinks; since 1986, he's published 3 books of poetry, an opera libretto
> (music by Alva Henderson), a book of critical essays, and numerous
> uncollected pieces, both verse and prose. He has also, for 7 years,
> been one of the two principal organizers of the 4-day-long West Chester
> Conference on Formal and Narrative Poetry, which this year had about 300
> participants, and until recently was one of the forces behind the Story
> Line Press.
>
> On Friday, July 6, 2001, at 06:26 PM, Candice Ward wrote:
>
>> Check out this hilarious (and error-riddled) piece by an American
>> journalist
>> in a Brit journal that blurbs itself as "_the_ magazine for the
>> intellectually curious general reader...the intelligent monthly based in
>> Britain - but with an international mind and an international
>> readership"--but with no fact-checker on staff apparently....
>>
>> Let's hear it for Dana Gioia, Slo-Po!
>>
>> Candice
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