"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world"
- Russell Baker
About this Quote
This quote by Russell Baker is a commentary on the state of modern poetry. He is revealing his frustration in the absence of significant content in contemporary poetry. He thinks that much of it is too abstract and tough to understand, and that it checks out like a coded message between 2 people who are isolated from the world. He thinks that the poetry these days is not as significant or as accessible as it as soon as was, and that it has ended up being too esoteric and tough to comprehend. He has given up on new poetry due to the fact that he feels that it is not as meaningful or as enjoyable as it when was. He believes that the poetry of today is too abstract and challenging to understand, and that it is not as enjoyable as it when was.
This quote is written / told by Russell Baker between August 14, 1925 and January 21, 2019. He was a famous Journalist from USA.
The author also have 28 other quotes.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
