[New-Poetry] mo natterin' bout po no matterin'

[Chris Lott]

re: Spektor as poet (ju st to choose an example)....

I'm just not seeing it. She is more lyrically sophisticated than many
other pop artists, but bereft of the music I don't see much
particularly good poetry there. Which isn't surprising-- it's akin to
saying "without all those nouns and verbs, his writing isn't
particularly strong."

I'm glad there are sophisticated pop lyricists (like I said, I listen
to a lot of pop :) but their emphasis is-- rightly-- not on the words
and the product shows it. If that were the future of poetry, I think
it'd be pretty sad because a lot of fthe potential power would be
permanently lost.

c