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The Plight of Poetry (or: What The Professors Did To Poetry
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This entry was posted by eeksypeeksy on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 at 11:09 AM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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At 7:33 PM, Blogger Bill Hooker replied:

Eh. I wanted to like that article, having some sympathy for much of his argument or position or whatever, but then he went and praised Billy Fucking Collins. If ever there was a McPoet, it's BFC.

As for "What’s certain is that writers such as Catullus and Martial are perused with more visceral enjoyment than virtually all contemporary poets", Mr Price simply needs to follow his own advice and read more. AE Stallings, Brad Leithauser, Greg Williamson, Daniel Anderson, Andrew Hudgins... I can hear Richard Wilbur calling out "Ah'm no' daid yet" in his best Monty Python voice...    



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