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

[TheOldMole]

    Wow! It's that good?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Halvard Johnson" <halvard at earthlink.net>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views" 
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] 'Can poetry matter?' international style...


> 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- 
>> poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>> 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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