I agree about Irving Feldman being among the deserving. Isn't Daryl
Hine mostly noted for being editor of Poetry Magazine?
Frederick Pollack wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 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?
>>
>> --
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>
> 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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Tad Richards
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