[New-Poetry] unfeeling poets

[Alexander Dickow]

The Old Mole wrote:
"There's a wonderful book on jazz musicians called
"But Beautiful," in 
which the author theorizes that Chet Baker played so
beautifully, and 
drew such powerful emotion from his listeners,
precisely because he felt 
nothing when he was playing. Who knows if it's true?

Keats said it best, unsurprisingly:"

Old Mole,
You might enjoy reading, in the same vein and if you
haven't already, Diderot's Paradoxe du comedien --
where the notion of the best artist being unfeeling
was best discussed in the 18th century. You can find
much the same sort of thing in a few much too famous
passages in Baudelaire and many others (and the Keats
is an old fave, for sure), but I dig the Diderot.

Recommended to all, Margaret Konkol's piece on
Creeley. Margaret's fabulous (one of these days I'll
convince her to publish her poetry) --
Happy New Year's Eve!
Alex

www.alexdickow.net/blog/
   
  les mots! ah quel désert à la fin
  merveilleux. -- Henri Droguet