She upheld in her poetry the values she cherished, writing with delight of the suburban landscape.
Brown liked the literary conversation — Snyder's easy, learned references to Chinese and Japanese poetry — and valued their discussions of Zen and ecology.
But the novelist Volodia Teitelboim, at 88 one of the last of Neruda's contemporaries, argues that even Neruda's worst political poetry has value, if only cautionary.
"We've proved that performance poetry has value," muses Victor D. Infante, 37, editor of November 3rd Club, a poetry quarterly.
And this restriction on which poems derive a true merit from being inspired leaves inspiration a long way from guaranteeing poetry's value.
In the passages from the Apology, Laws, and Meno, his minor comments about inspiration (as opposed to sustained discussions of it), Plato seems to be going out of his way to affirm 1) that inspiration is really divine in origin, and 2) that this divine action that gives rise to poetry guarantees value in the result.
Deliver poetry and value with ever word.
Ultimately, the physical product of Pink Thunder is superfluous, just as it is poetry we value--its invisible sound and core-felt sense--not the publishing scene.
The challenge is compounded by the fact that traditional forms of all Arabic poetry are valued partly for their grammatical and syntactical calisthenics, unique to the language and difficult to render.
Even in the most considered reactions, it is possible to detect an undertow of anguish: it is infuriating to ponder the truth in Barr's claim that the public no longer values poetry, and to contemplate some of the choices the foundation has made, especially as the traditional patrons of poetry — schools, independent publishers, little magazines — struggle to keep their programs alive.
