Editor’s Choice | A serious poet praises popular poetry, including rap [US]:
Most poets, when they write about poetics, tend to be not only prescriptive, but also self-justifying: Poetry should be the sort of thing the poet himself writes. Gioia's approach is phenomenological: Poetry is what poets do - and there are a lot of different poets doing a lot of different things. This outlook not only leaves him open to and appreciative of a greater range of styles, but also allows him to see neglected or forgotten figures afresh. Who else could manage to connect Longfellow, so scorned by modernists, with Ezra Pound, modernism's shaman - and Longfellow's grandnephew? [...]
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