Basically, I agree with Mark here. I'm not sure that's just taste, but
it has a lot to do with my own sense of the poetic, & where I got it,
also from a number of Canadian poets, was from the poets in the line
Mark lays part of out here. It is interesting that Lowell professed his
admiration for Williams, but seemed to miss the point most of the time.
Still, maybe Berryman is a great elegiast, if limited in focus.
Whose work do I return to with love & desire? Mostly poets belonging to
the field Mark's names (& others) walked & wrote.
Doug
On 22-Mar-05, at 8:11 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> The issue, Robin, is not the generations, but the slice of them most
> of us
> were allowed to see, which didn't include their contemporaries like
> Olson,
> Rexroth, Niedecker, Rukeyser, Oppen, Reznikoff--need I continue? That
> official bunch did a good job promoting themselves and each other to
> the
> exclusion of, let me say, their betters.
>
> Mark
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