tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post8116328448903175816..comments2024-03-28T04:54:20.979-05:00Comments on Poetry & Popular Culture: Fiske Matters: P&PC Goes on TourMike Chasarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00272500491569722314noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-86098456727341425072010-05-25T17:30:50.527-05:002010-05-25T17:30:50.527-05:00In the realm of light verse -- have you looked at ...In the realm of light verse -- have you looked at the Pulitzer Prize winning light verse of Phyliss McGinley. She held the same position Millay did for "flapper" types in the 50s, except her audience was suburban married women. She was a wonderful and sophisticated versifier, Auden wrote a forward to her selected. See the NYTimes piece from about a year + ago, tieing her in with the interest in 60s cukture brought on by MadMen--although she was attacked by Betty Friedan in FemMystique, she was the main breadwinner in her family and served on a NY State Commision that liberalized abortion laws a few years ahead of RoevWade. Light verse ended culturally in US with howard Moss' appointment as New Yorker poetry editor. Later light verse such as Susan Polis Schultz, paul Williams & Rod McKuen were never given the cultural respect that Nash, parker & McGinley AchievedUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550824225970687581noreply@blogger.com