On Dec 10, 2006, at 8:57 PM, mike larkin wrote:
> On a whim, I picked up this volume (edited by Lyn Hejinian, series
> editor David Lehman). For the life of me, I can't make heads or
> tails of a single poem. When did American poetry become so obtuse?
Well, Ashbery won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956, so it's been at least 50 years!
Doug