![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because I get to read poems as poems, without being blinded by the mystique that can hang around a poet. I rather like coming across an anthology or a magazine that doesn’t just bow to the well-known names. And in most of the seminars, and at most of the academic conventions, and in most of the discourse spoken and written that is generated by such anthologies, seminars and conventions. And better-known authors already have their place in the sun, appearing as they do almost inevitably in most of the OTHER anthologies. Some of those black poets have been unfairly excluded previously. Vendler’s complaint that various black poets have been included to the possible detriment of “better-known authors” is silly. But there are still academics in many disciplines having discussions that most of the rest of the world no longer has (if it ever did.) Academe is a cosy place to be. The author is dismayed (rightly so) that there are still academics having this discussion. ![]()
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