Recently unearthed from the
frozen Siberia of my attic, a
pair of crusty relics from the old
Poetry Wars of the early '90s:
a contentious essay: "Meter,
Misnomers & Misapprehensions:
A Reply to Jonathan Holden",
in response to his essay
"The Old Formalism",
both essays published in
consecutive issues of Verse ~~

and another polemic,

"Breaking into the Dragon's Hoard:
the Death of Modernism &
the Unlocking of the Past"
published in Sparrow:
A Yearbook of the Sonnet.





Copyright 2001 by BJ Omanson
Some of the poems on these pages
appeared first
in the following periodicals:
The Sewanee Review,
The Hudson Review,
Sparrow: A Yearbook of the Sonnet,
Shenandoah,
Chronicles,
Northern Review,
Pennsylvania Review

"The Harvest" appeared in
The Academy of American Poets'
New Voices, 1989-1998
where, without my permission,
it was partially rewritten
by the editor, who left its
meter nicely mangled.
The true, unregenerate version
can be read here.






John Macoubrie