tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post2897879445293881227..comments2023-12-03T03:43:26.162-05:00Comments on Out of the Woodwork: Anis Shivani: What Is the State of American Poetry? Leading American Poets SpeakBrian Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-76164326329639171192010-10-05T15:37:46.478-04:002010-10-05T15:37:46.478-04:00I haven't taken the time yet to read the Huffi...I haven't taken the time yet to read the Huffington article but did stop and read yours which was quite good. <br /><br />I thought of this David Wagoner quote from the intro to '09's Best American Poetry:<br /><br /> "Poetry began out of necessity, out of irresistible impulse among preliterate peoples. It began together with song and dance around the campfire, out of grief at the sides of graves, out of the boasting and fear and hunger and the search for power before and after the hunt and making war and love. If it were all to disappear from books and magazines now, out of our libraries, out of our memories, the poets among us would begin all over again inventing it, shaping it, speaking it, writing it down, and I'm certain, after a half-dozen generations, poems would be enriching American speech and our lives once more."<br /><br />I'd like to think so...The Aiken itehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504178255741258198noreply@blogger.com