>From: sevanthi ragunathan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Regional Poetics?
>Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:32:10 -0000
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>Not to be rude, but convince me you can summarize my views in a way that I
>would find credible.
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>I made a few arguments about the ways in which Dana Gioia's criticism (in
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>poetry audiences, form, rap) is narrow, myopic and wrong-headed. There is
>no question that his conception of poetry audiences, in Can Poetry Matter,
>*is* extremely narrow, *does not* consider the social movements to which
>poetry has been crucial, *does not* grapple with poetry in open forms which
>has been quite popular, *is* concerned with a *particular* poetry audience
>without being explicit/honest about it. Whether he has dinner with black
>lesbians and/or includes them in his anthologies is not the bone of [my]
>contention.
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>Nor for that matter, was my point wasn't that you were a "straight,
sorry, this should read, "Nor for that matter, was my point that you were a"
as a footnote to my remarks, I'd point out that that Marilyn Hacker's
remarks on contemporary poetry audiences are vastly different from Gioia's,
and far more firmly connected to reality.
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>man who couldn't get it," my point was that you didn't get it, and didn't
>get it not because there aren't other people in Raleigh who don't get it,
>but because your survey of tastes in poetry didn't include those people.
>For example, I'd guess you don't know anyone who bought Sapphire, and yet
>she's one of the most popular poets in the US.
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>In closing, I want to say that this is my last post in this exchange. I
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>some substantive statements about form and poetry which seem to me to have
>been ignored in favor of some not very interesting revelations about your
>personal life. That's usually a sign that the subject has worn out its
>interest.
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