Was she the poet who read at the Inauguration? If so, I have to agree;
that was banal stuff, to say the best of it. WHile that old preacher
just sang....
Doug
On 28-Dec-09, at 10:39 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Thanks for providing the link to this unappealing piece of writing
> by the current Poet
> Laureate. I subjected myself to her first reading in Washington DC
> and found it quite
> unremarkable, despite Dana Gioia's attempt to make a case for her.
> Had the Librarian of
> Congress attended to the following sentence from "I Go To The AWP"
> before choosing her
> from 15 candidates selected by previous PLs and Gioia, I wonder if
> he would have made the
> same decision:
>
> "No, I think poets should take the lesson of the great aromatic
> eucalyptus tree and poison
> the soil beneath us."
>
> She hasn't brought in even one poet I'd recommend to anyone as
> useful or interesting, and
> in fact a few of her curatorial choices are mainstream AWP fodder.
> I look forward to her
> departure from this area. Carolyn Forche, Eileen Myles, or Anne
> Waldman would have been
> much better choices.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
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