tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post884385441698846461..comments2024-01-28T00:29:16.605-08:00Comments on Susan M. Schultz's Blog: "But it matters": Mark Edmundson and the extremely bad state of contemporary American poetrysusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-13259407547263793962019-02-08T18:22:39.440-08:002019-02-08T18:22:39.440-08:00"But that's because he's not been rea..."But that's because he's not been reading anything except the prize-winners." Interesting that poets held to be good were not prize winners and the prize winners, by default, aren't good.<br />It's true that Edmundson's POV is narrow. But "whatabouting" a laundry list of identity poetics, does not invalidate it. At worst his is just another "locale," no truer than the other locales, and just as true as well. The pluralism of a multivalent aesthetic is sanguinary, but pointing that out whiffs completely at Edmundson's pitch.Stourley Kracklitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529306506710881732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-41880717361063291922013-10-21T15:00:29.280-07:002013-10-21T15:00:29.280-07:00Exactly! Thanks for speaking for us!Exactly! Thanks for speaking for us!NaNHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316021508800262331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-79001351715545500572013-06-25T14:32:53.270-07:002013-06-25T14:32:53.270-07:00Julia Cohen's "Open Letter to Mark Edmuns...Julia Cohen's "Open Letter to Mark Edmunson" adds to this conversation as well:<br /><br />http://onthemessiersideofneat.blogspot.com/2013/06/open-letter-to-mark-edmundson.htmlScott Abelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317278667369191433noreply@blogger.com