Oh, I'd say that word for word, there's far more poetry circulating in
print than spoken in bookshops. This isn't really an arguable point.
The number of people who'd have to be reading at one time to read all
the poetry sitting on bookshelves just in every Barnes and Nobles in the
US staggers the imagination. That's not to say you're wrong about this,
though:
> I suspect that there are more "exceptions" than you think, almost enough to make you begin to doubt
> that the rule is a rule.
It may indeed be the case. I think this is bad for poetry, but at this
point I think I'd just be arguing for personal preferences. When poetry
becomes indistinguishable from prose, in my opiniion, it ceases to
exist. The more widely I read contemporary poetry, the more bothered I
am by what passes for poetry these days. A lot of it is crap. Some
people really seem to think that because they've put an experience or
feeling into words, they've written poetry. Some of it, though, is
still very good. Ever hear of George Wallace?
Jim
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