Sunday, October 20, 2013

Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Frost (A frosty relationship?)

The headline here is "Joyce Carol Oates Skewers Robert Frost as a Sexist Racist Old Bore."
Yikes!  "The Road Less Traveled" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" are two of my favorite poems:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/10/18/joyce-carol-oates-skewers-robert-frost-as-a-sexist-racist-old-bore/

And here's the link to "Why is Modern Poetry so Bad?" in Harper's:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/06/20/why-is-modern-poetry-so-bad/
Read my blog entry on modern poetry on September 18, 2010, "Call Me Conventional."