Comments on: Taking the Fall, A Few Thoughts on that Utne Poetry Essay, and Poetry Reviews, Sales, and Empowerment https://webbish6.com/taking-the-fall-a-few-thoughts-on-that-utne-poetry-essay-and-poetry-reviews-sales-and-empowerment/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jan Priddy https://webbish6.com/taking-the-fall-a-few-thoughts-on-that-utne-poetry-essay-and-poetry-reviews-sales-and-empowerment/#comment-12758 Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:45:12 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=8003#comment-12758 I am a few years older than Hicok, but there is no denying he’s been at this decades longer than either of us. From the beginning, I read Hicok’s essay differently: “Whatever the cost for me, I’m happy that the myths and traditions of gender and racial superiority are being turned on their heads by poets.”

Years ago I read an essay by a famous novelist in The New Yorker. That one whined exactly in the way you describe. (I was later gratified to learn that Ursula K. Le Guin disliked him too.)

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