Re: The best American poem of past decade

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:37:58 +0200
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Peter J Ross wrote:
Maybe even the best american poem ever:
It's actually readable. I'm surprised. I don't often read modern poems
all the way through.
Korda spents most of his time in Holland and makes his records in
Germany, so he's actually a decent american.
It was actually a song lyric.
The only dead American poets worth reading are Robinson, Frost, Eliot,
Pound and Berryman. Mostly they left their country of birth as soon as
they could.
I have noticed the same tendency. Not that I think Pound, the Berlusconi
of pompous rhyme, was even worth mentioning.
Most of these people don't survive a comparison with Kraftwerk anyway.
M.H.Benders