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Apr 15, 2005 03:00 PM by James Panero
Following this note from John Jackson on the PSA, I just received another interesting letter on the subject: Given your apt comments at New Criterion’s blog re the current poetry scene --hermetic, yes, but with no transcendent payoff -- I wanted to alert you to the chapter on art and letters in Robert Conquest’s latest, The Dragons of Expectation. In it he makes a point others have made, that if one wants attention to rhyme and meter one will do better sampling country music than anything the university/poetry combine disgorges. Poet, essayist, and NEA Chairman Dana Gioia makes much the same point, even going so far as to analyze rap/hip-hop (whatever). (Links to Gioia available here, in an article I wrote in Catholic Exchange about Gioia, when he first took charge of the NEA, at Catholic Exchange).
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