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Harold Bloom, ever pompous, is quoted on the back cover as saying:
"Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity." Gawd....
Paz, for example, writes like a seer and a prophet AND makes it work. Maybe it's ust Grossman's neo-Romantic language that makes his poems so dull.
Also, he doesn't seem to have learned Pound's rule: DICHTEN = CONDENSARE.
This reminds me of something Davenport says:
"Mr. Lowell has, indeed, worked hard at being a poet. He has been severe in his output, and knows, with Brahms that writing is all to easy. What's hard is to throw most of what you've written in the trash-basket. He has been smart and modern in metric and diction. And he has been bleak, agonized, and serious, terribly serious. He seems to have always had a headache. He is respected at Bennington. "
"Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity." Gawd....
Paz, for example, writes like a seer and a prophet AND makes it work. Maybe it's ust Grossman's neo-Romantic language that makes his poems so dull.
Also, he doesn't seem to have learned Pound's rule: DICHTEN = CONDENSARE.
This reminds me of something Davenport says:
"Mr. Lowell has, indeed, worked hard at being a poet. He has been severe in his output, and knows, with Brahms that writing is all to easy. What's hard is to throw most of what you've written in the trash-basket. He has been smart and modern in metric and diction. And he has been bleak, agonized, and serious, terribly serious. He seems to have always had a headache. He is respected at Bennington. "
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