tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588707082485792633.post1855549762891416703..comments2011-09-22T08:42:27.659-07:00Comments on Strange Land Poems: Literature Has Died, AgainSarah Wetzel Fishmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10379793744958648614noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588707082485792633.post-5644332683088271792010-02-01T17:16:30.756-08:002010-02-01T17:16:30.756-08:00Perhaps. But finding the something worth reading, ...Perhaps. But finding the something worth reading, something beautiful, means wading through a lot of shlock.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520224166726492501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588707082485792633.post-69642299884212615112010-02-01T13:31:29.480-08:002010-02-01T13:31:29.480-08:00No kidding--the death of literature, the death of ...No kidding--the death of literature, the death of fiction, and most especially the death of poetry, are predicted on a regular basis, just as regular as the crying out against the increasing disappearance of precise language and good grammar. Most of the time, the people offering these predictions and declarations are folks who have somehow been less than scintillating in their own writing or who have failed to "make it" in some fashion or another, as if gaining notoriety or a chunk of change were at all the same thing as writing something worth reading, something beautiful.KrisRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009351993302406782noreply@blogger.com