"With this powerful emblem of professional literary culture coming to an end, what are we to make of The Best American Poetry? I want to offer two ways to approach this question. One is about taste. The other is about publishing." I wasn't much familiar with BAP's editor David Lehman, but this piece gives him a pretty thorough skewering en route to a deeper discussion of politics, aesthetics, and publishing. submitted by /u/tawdryscandal |
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’
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