'poetry is a hobby,
no more important,
say,
than stamp collecting,'
the anthologist said,
droll & snark
stenciled
on the office door
of his soul.
it annoys enough
to prompt
a poem,
then,
soon forgot.
nobody
reads his anthologies
except the poets
trying
to get in them.
& they don't count.
I agree that Leman's anthos suck, but I think they pretty accurately capture the current tenor of poetry. It pretty much all sucks, first-world English language stuff, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI did the previous comment, I'm assuming this is about the anthologist David Lehman, right?
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