Why should I resist thinking that the second generation New York poets are great in their own right? Did I think there was some sort of quota on how many interesting poets could exist in any one geographical configuration?

My top ten poets (those I have been reading most assiduously the past 5 or 10 years)

1. Antonio Gamoneda
2. Barbara Guest
3. Raymond Roussel
4. John Ashbery
4. José Angel Valente
5. Clark Coolidge
6. Samuel Beckett
7. Joseph Ceravolo
8. William Bronk
9. James Schuyler
10. Claudio Rodríguez