Poetry turned into a sort of Freudian stand up comedy or tragi-comedy. It got too self-promotional and introspective and lost the muse. Poetry needs formality and craft. The complete collapse of the NY poetry scene, which was amazing when I got here, is one of the great disappointments of my life. There is really a ridiculously small amount of good writing going on and the people who get all the awards and academic attention are really not good.
Glenn O’Brien
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