Not measuring it in gold discs but cultural influence.
Those poets might have influence but we are talking breadth and time-scale with Dylan--not about influencing a few poets who teach at universities etc.
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Michael Peverett wrote:
I'm with Jamie on this one. You can't measure importance in gold discs. Like him or not - I do - , Tranströmer (2011) was a hugely influential poet, a world poet.
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/stone-sober.html
I would say Svetlana Alexeyevitch is a pretty important writer, too. I can't pretend to know much about some of the others. But I fully believe that if I read one book by each of them it would be a serious expansion of my world.
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