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

[Halvard Johnson]

Use your imagination, Tad.


Hal

On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:54 PM, TheOldMole wrote:

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