Wy the last two decades?
I'll stick with Theodore Sturgeon's 'rule,' 95% of EVERYTHING is shit.
The problem, as always, is who's making the decisions here, who says
which 5% is the good stuff?
Barry & I might agree more than David & I would on this matter, but
who can be sure of such things...?
We *think* it will all sort out over the next couple of hundred years
(if there's anyone left to read the stuff)....
Doug
On 14-Jul-08, at 2:40 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Barry
>
> call it poet's intuition.
>
>
>
> 2008/7/14 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Sorry, but I simply don't believe this assertion. I'd be amused to
>> see you try to prove it, using
>> particulars & numbers. Nor am I a great fan of the last 20 years
>> of poetry, but still . . .
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:56:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks about
>>> this
>>> or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements (don't
>>> laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this:
>>>
>>> that in the English language the last two decades have seen the
>>> greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of human
>>> civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been written
>>> and
>>> published in English in these years than that of the combined
>>> total of
>>> all other cultures that have ever existed.
>>>
>>> It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great days.
>>>
>>> Tsunami.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/
>>> animal.html
>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
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>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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