He's a good-hearted simple fellow that Gioia. I used to
dislike him, but now I'm enGioiaing him.
Hal
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On May 7, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> "Gioia said he once feared that poetry had become so complicated
> that it
> would never appeal to a mass audience. The rise of rap in the 1980s
> underscored an unarticulated need for the oral tradition in U.S.
> society, he
> said."
>
> I've heard this line from Gioia before. I'd like to ask him which
> hip-hop
> record he slid into the CD player this morning when he got in his
> car to
> drive to work. (Guess: The Montovani Strings do Tupac.) I'm sorry to
> see my
> old pal Gerry LaFemina hanging around in such bad company.
>
> On the other hand, the performance of the Robert
> Hayden<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/196>poem was fine & poetry
> recitation is fine. I don't think it's a bad thing to
> encourage students to memorize and recite poetry. More Hayden poems
> here<http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3014>
> .
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> Weblog: sharpsand.net
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