Robbins is an establishment figure. He’s published in the New Yorker and Poetry Magazine. Good for him. But if there’s going to be revolution anytime soon it won’t be it those pages – getting back to the original theme of this thread: how Poetry Magazine has lost its edge.
Robbins is politically motivated at least as much as he is aesthetically. That is his right and he is by no means the first. For my blood, he runs too hot in the nihilism direction and I’m just a sappy humanist. He does have taste: the Palmer poem he quotes is exquisite.
John says, What language! I'll bet the bloke's a little person.
Priceless.
Last edited by Don Jones; 10-22-2013 at 06:22 AM.
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