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From: "TheOldMole" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: MacArthur Poets
> Out of curiosity, I checked Wiki and compiled this list of poets who've
> won MacArthur grants . One thing that surprised me was how many of these
> poets I'd never heard of.
>
> A. R. Ammons
> Joseph Brodsky
> Derek Walcott
> Robert Penn Warren
> Brad Leithauser
> A.K. Ramanujan
> Robert Hass
> Charles Simic
> Galway Kinnell
> John Ashbery
> Daryl Hine
> Jay Wright
> Douglas Crase
> Richard Kenney
> Mark Strand
> May Swenson
> Allen Grossman
> Jorie Graham
> John Hollander
> Alice Fulton
> Eleanor Wilner
> Amy Clampitt
> Irving Feldman
> Thom Gunn
> Ann Lauterbach
> Jim Powell
> Adrienne Rich
> Sandra Cisneros
> Richard Howard
> Thylias Moss
> Susan Stewart
> Linda Bierds
> Edward Hirsch
> Ishmael Reed
> Campbell McGrath
> Anne Carson
> Lucia M. Perillo
> C. D. Wright
>
>
> Years in which no poet won a MacArthur Grant: 1982, 1988, 2001, 2002,
> 2003, 2005, 2006 ... a distressing trend?
>
> And if we were to take a vote on who the least deserving MacArthur
> recipient was, who would win?
>
> --
One of them, whom for obvious reasons I won't name, jump-started the career
by fucking profs of both sexes and selling meth to them and their kids . I
admit this was only campus gossip, but I heard it from well-placed sources
and, having met the poet involved, believed it. The work is all pastiche
and affectation.
A possibly obscure name here which shouldn't be is that of Irving Feldman -
a strong, passionate poet who actually OBSERVES things. -- Lauterbach is
one of my betes noires - a second-string or second-generation langpo.
Characteristic trick among this group of mentioning "language" or "the text"
or "the sentence" every few lines to prove one belongs. Oh Lawsy, Ah KNOWS
they ain't no such thing as an hors-texte. -- Daryl Hine wrote something
called "Academic Festival Overture," which was.
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