There is much to love about The New York Times, but I am constantly surprised by its journalists’ capacity to be elitist, self-important assholes. This brief interview with America’s new poet laureate — who has apparently committed the capital offense of living in Nebraska — drips with snobbery and condescension. “But you must know of Czeslaw Milosz, the much-beloved Polish poet who recently died.” (“And surely I must find a way to work his name into the Times, so I can show all my fellow Cornell grads that I still read The Paris Review.”) So much posing for peers, so little humanity.
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I don’t know whether to cry “b*tch” or “@sshole”
From the article: “As poet laureate, don’t you think you should be better acquainted with European poetry?”
I’d like my poet laureate to continue doing precisely the work that landed him the “job”.
Sneery shits. But Ted got the last word: “Think of all the European poetry I could have read if we hadn’t spent all this time on this interview.”
I love that last line:
As poet laureate, don’t you think you should be better acquainted with European poetry?
Think of all the European poetry I could have read if we hadn’t spent all this time on this interview
And why should the American poete laureate be so familiar with European poets? Why not the Asian poets? or the Indian poets? Or Mexican poets?
i bet he’s better versed in the nebraska poets.