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Tuesday 4 February 2003
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It grieves me sincerely that Stanley Kunitz, a poet whose work I admire deeply, heck, a man I admire deeply, is lending his voice to this Sam Hamill nonsense when so many Jews, Kurdistani, Iranians, Kuwaiti, and Iraqis have lost theirs. At the Dodge Poetry Fest, when that blowhard asshole Robert Bly was busy spouting slogans,
he and Dove remained calm and magisterial. I thought it was because they knew that
a poetry gathering is not a soapbox for politics. Evidently not.
Sam Hamill: um. Can’t say I know much about his poetry. I think the one time I saw his work it was a book of essays that I looked over in the Newark Public Library while searching for the Norton Postmodernist poetry collection, whatever it was called. I’m sure he believes he is taking a principled stand; but then again, so did Neville Chamberlain.
11:30:21 PM 
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