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

[TheOldMole]

I watched one of those the other night. Indigenous nudity, and large pieces 
of wood in their lower jaws.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
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> 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
>> >>
>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >> ~ 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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