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

[James Cervantes]

Gleaned that from the travel channel, where certain documentaries are
preceded by the warning that the following contains "indigenous
nudity" etc.  The indigenous nudity, however, is always blurred over,
with the exception of women's breasts.

- Jim, anthropogally yours

On 7/10/06, TheOldMole <tad at opus40.org> 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
> >>
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> >>
> >
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