[lbo-talk] The Best American Poetry 2004

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 10 18:14:14 PST 2006


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



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