Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick Mullin
Martin's 9-11 poem encapsulates what is wrong with 9-11 poetry. [But didn't we discuss this last year?]
|
We did. Discussion
here.
I see that you dislike the imposition of history on the 9/11 events; I feel differently about that. But then, I prefer to see that poem, in spite of its title, as about a whole tragic past, not just 9/11.
Gregory makes the point--and you did too, Rick--that there's a lot of awful poetry about 9/11, and Gail reminds us that there's a lot about other disasters too. People write it too quickly, too naively. And even when it's done right, people will have differing reactions to the products, on account of the sort of different mindsets we're exploring here.
But I'm still interested in the question of what makes such poems admirable. So, if there's a poem of this kind that you sincerely admire, I invite you to put it here.