Ask the Author: Joshua Corey

“Ask me a question.” Joshua Corey

Answered Questions (1)

Sort By:

An error occurred while sorting questions for author Joshua Corey.

Do you ever feel that much of the poetry published in Poetry magazine is so obscure that it becomes a chore just to read?

Joshua Corey I'll ask the late Geoffrey Hill to field this one: “In my view, difficult poetry is the most democratic, because you are doing your audience the honour of supposing that they are intelligent human beings. So much of the populist poetry of today treats people as if they were fools. And that particular aspect, and the aspect of the forgetting of a tradition, go together.”

flag

3 likes · like
5 comments

View all 5 comments

Joshua The poetry that means the most to me nowadays is written by poets with a profound understanding of historical experience (or what is almost the same t ...more
Jul 04, 2017 05:39PM

Jimmy I put a lot of extra effort into your book since this discussion. I read and reread. I came to appreciate it much more. I'm still not sure the effort ...more
Jul 04, 2017 05:52PM

Joshua Corey

42 followers

To ask Joshua Corey a question, please sign up.

About Goodreads Q&A

Ask and answer questions about books!

You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.

See Featured Authors Answering Questions

Learn more