[lbo-talk] The Best American Poetry 2004

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Dec 10 20:45:58 PST 2006


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> You want
> stuff that goes down easy, stick to Heine, A.E.
> Houseman or Robert Frost

I don't think Robert Frost belongs in this list. A good deal of his poetry is pretty abstruse. And quite a bit of it is also sneering at his "popular" readers for being damn fools in not noticing that this time he is just pulling their lets. He was a first class prick, but a hell of a good (and not all that clear) poet.

Carrol



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