Yes, the Jorie Graham poem is awful. I fell asleep three times before I finished it last night. Then my daughter called me to tell me the bridge had collapsed.
But -- Simic's poems not typical New Yorker poems. No bursting into light in the end. I don't think his schtick is particularly trite -- in fact many of his poems strange in not typical ways that may seem typical because he is being read as Simic. Many damn fine. Humor -- a certain disregard for the pious.
Of extant poets post avant and SOQ (is there anything else?) he ranks 123rd of 67,843.
Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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From: "Kenneth Wolman"
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: "To the One Reading Simic"
> Frederick Pollack wrote:
>>
>> Name-dropping seems to have paid off for him.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> New Yorker house style.
>
> Nasty poem (title forgotten, bad poem) by Michael Blumenthal about why
> he'd never appear in The New Yorker. Why: does not mention the names of
> New York visual artists or New York school of poets. Eye-eee, he does not
> namedrop.
>
> That was a few years ago. I do not know if this is true anymore.
>
> k
>
Has anyone seen the Jorie Graham poem that takes up most of two pages in the
current issue? Actually has some discipline at the start, then sinks into
worse than her norm.
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