How much can you eat before, well, before "you know what" happens?No, I'm sorry, I don' t know what.One of my favorite journals, The Boston Review, is showing once again why it’s one of my favorite journals. Here’s a discussion between Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula, where they’re looking at the culture of contemporary poetry. So is the number of poets (the glut! oh no, the glut!) good for the art form?
Chasar:
My gut reaction (you could maybe call it my glut reaction) is to say that questions like “Is it a glut?” or “Is it a problem?” aren’t nearly as interesting as questions like “Who is it a problem for?” and “Why do those people think it’s a problem?” For critics like Burt, it’s a problem because it challenges what it means to be an “expert” in American poetry. … how can you be an arbiter of taste if you can’t read everything to pass judgment on it? Insofar as the centrality of Official Verse Culture is affected by a period of glut—where there is no longer an official center—then Official Verse Culture has a stake in the matter.
Here’s the link:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.6/jed_rasula_mike_chasar_poetry_popular_culture_demographics.php
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