Jimmy
asked
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.”
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