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

[Roger Day]

Isn't that what the pilgrims practiced before the indians taught them
better?  Or have I got Amerihistory confused again?

Roger

On 11/07/06, TheOldMole <tad at opus40.org> wrote:
> 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>
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp, Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] 'Can poetry matter?' international style...
>
>
> > 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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