Harold Bloom Interview

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

That's pretty damned scary: Ashbery is one of the WORST poets I've ever  
read. Totally pretentious b.s.; I've been saying it for years, and it was just  
confirmed by an outstanding poet I just spoke with, that many contemporary poets 
 think he's full of it, though he does have his sycophantic followers who 
presume  he's saying something even though he's not.
Apparently Bloom is one of them, which doesn't honestly surprise me. If  
Ashbery is an example of "American literary culture," we're in serious  trouble.
 
RF
 
In a message dated 10/28/2005 4:26:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com writes:


http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2005-10-07-bloom-en.html

"The  American literary culture is still very much alive – there are real 
poets  here – John Ashbery is a remarkable poet; we have four remarkable  
novelists still alive and at work: my friend Philip Roth, my friend Don  
DeLillo, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon, and that remarkable, reclusive  
novelist Cormac McCarthy who wrote that astonishing book called The Blood  
Meridian, which I wrote about in How to Read and Why.  "

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