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Unread 10-14-2002, 03:16 PM
Michael Cantor Michael Cantor is offline
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Richard -

To call "Best American Poetry 2002" a travesty is to insult and denigrate travesties everywhere. It is a shrine to empty pretension, a cathedral of silliness. What I'd really be interested in is the story - if there is one - behind the choices. The repeated selections from the same few narrow or obscure (at least to me) journals can't just be coincidence, and it's impossible to believe they're based on quality. I'm a stranger here, totally uninvolved in the politics or passions and fashions of our poetic world - I just sit in the corner and write my stuff and whimper when the big guys talk of "deconstruction" - but I am absolutely unable to fathom why much of that junk was chosen or printed. Are they all nuts? Is there some new drug I don't know about?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Michael
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