This whole rigmarole about "professors" is simply stupid, as if the
academy in America were monolithic, as if teaching were not just one
more form of work. And if Americans HAD allowed their poetry to be
"hijacked," whose fault would that be? I live in a little town in
northern New York State & at the coffee house on Saturday nights you
can hear plenty of poets reciting their stuff--some from the local
college, some members of the Unitarian Church, some who live in
cabins out in the woods without electricity. Poetry is alive & well
in the US, but what guys like Dana Gioia can't stand is that it
can't be organized for purposes of ideology, which is what he & most
of the self-proclaimed "New Formalists" are about.
jd
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School of Liberal Arts, box 5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
315.268.3967
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