I am still genuflecting in a Catholic church, and the
other need for wrapping us up. Unfortunately, I can't
come to the fair this year. May you all enjoy the
games of chance!
Candice
--- Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TheOldMole" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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