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“I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac”

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Author:Frank O'Hara

“American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare”

People Has Beens Ideas Culture Nations Levels Economy Democracy Conflict Empires Republic Perpetual Warfare Premises American Poetry

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.”

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Book:Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

Source: Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

“I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”

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Author:David Biespiel

“American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.”

Testimony American Poetry

Author:Mark Strand

“I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski