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
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