Eyewear highly recommends The Wolf - A Decade: Poems from 2002-2012. It is a recently published anthology recording the incredible publishing efforts of Britain's finest little magazine of the new century, powerfully edited by James Byrne. It includes poems by an impressive international list of poets, showcasing the always innovative and original editorial brio that makes The Wolf the lone strong voice it is: C.D. Wright, Bei Dao, Peter Redgrove, Adonis, Ilya Kaminsky, Evan Jones, Andrea Brady... fearless, surprising choices, one and all.
When you open your mouth to speak, are you smart? A funny question from a great song, but also, a good one, when it comes to poets, and poetry. We tend to have a very ambiguous view of intelligence in poetry, one that I'd say is dysfunctional. Basically, it goes like this: once you are safely dead, it no longer matters how smart you were. For instance, Auden was smarter than Yeats , but most would still say Yeats is the finer poet; Eliot is clearly highly intelligent, but how much of Larkin 's work required a high IQ? Meanwhile, poets while alive tend to be celebrated if they are deemed intelligent: Anne Carson, Geoffrey Hill , and Jorie Graham , are all, clearly, very intelligent people, aside from their work as poets. But who reads Marianne Moore now, or Robert Lowell , smart poets? Or, Pound ? How smart could Pound be with his madcap views? Less intelligent poets are often more popular. John Betjeman was not a very smart poet, per se. What do I mean by smart?
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