Wow,
I'm too new here to have had the pleasure of meeting Rhina, but I do know the poetry. And the lunchmeat guy is way off the reservation here.
I find it curious, even if I accept his formulation that she's moved in a particular direction since the publication of her second book, that he considers this to be a failing of the New Formalism, since he apparently didn't consider Rhina's work a failure before, and she was a New Formalist then too, wasn't she?
And speaking as a poet rapidly heading towards sixty years, I have to say I'd be shocked if she didn't move in these sorts of directions, at this phase of her life.
The whole thing is crap. To the stocks with him!
(music)
[This message has been edited by bear_music (edited March 04, 2002).]
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