[New-Poetry] 'Can poetry matter?' international style...

[TheOldMole]

What's indigenous nudity?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views" 
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] 'Can poetry matter?' international style...


> That is all right with me,
> and there are a couple of poor souls out there who read the senseless 
> things I write;
> I should therefore think that I am eating down a good percentage of 
> readers.
>
> Wonderful quotation you are trailing along,
> re.: violence, indigenous nudity, sex, rap, animation, interpretative 
> dance_dance I think we sublimize it all, better than Christians and the 
> lot,
> /                /
> rotten lot
> sculpted on the loft of their spiritual virtual soft
>
> taken for an aeroplane (the letter by The Box Tops)
>
>
> From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:19 PM
>
>
>> On 7/10/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>>> You think? (I know you don't) - Bob Gruman would come _only _if you give 
>>> him
>>> some paper to draw and you do not annoy him; Tad _only _if he could play 
>>> and
>>> sing what he wants; James _only _if you give him a fishing rod and let 
>>> him
>>> run; Hal _only _if he can be in Mexico; me _only _if you leave me alone; 
>>> ...
>>
>> That'll work.  But we need some entertainment element for the masses
>> waiting to be converted to poetry.  Violence a la Kill Bill,
>> indigenous nudity, sex a la Kill Bill, rap, animation, interpretive
>> dance a la Kill Bill.  Or, it could just be that people (not us) think
>> poetry requires deep thinking and analysis (like in school) and that
>> it isn't poetry if there's no end rhyme.  Or maybe poetry already has
>> all the audience it's ever going to have, which is o.k. by me.  Or,
>> hypothetically, divide 10,000 staunch readers of poetry (USA) by
>> 3,000+ books of poetry, and you have 3.34 readers per book, or 6.68
>> readers for one particular book and 0.0 for that other etc.
>>
>> -- Jim
>>
>> "It was another steely winter, branches and icicles making the same
>> sound when they snapped.  The sky merely lightened and darkened.  A
>> hundred and ten days of the same snapshot, the same smoke rising in
>> the same way from the same chimney.  Olga's dreams supplied the only
>> variety, each of them different every night.  Too bad she could not
>> remember them and she woke from each with the same thought: the dams
>> will hold in spring."  - Piers Wong
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ~ Salt River Review:  http://www.poetserv.org
>> ~ http://www.hamiltonstone.org/catalog.html#temporarymeaning
>> ~ http://www.poetserv.net/jvchome/index.html
>> ~ http://home.earthlink.net/~jvcervantes/
>>
>
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