hi.
i think the answer to that last question is a definite no. the
audience is different these days and there just isn't the demand
for things that there once was. not that good poems aren't being
written, but i guess its like pop music. times change, people change.
most of the journals these days seem to take themselves terribly
seriously because, i suppose, most people, and most poets, seem
to do the same.
Lister has a poetic voice that sounds to me like he's just had at
least 2 glasses of good champagne. If the New Yorker archive
is correct between 1950 and 1973 he had 73 (!) poems published
inside its covers.
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