[New-Poetry] NatPoMo

[Anny Ballardini]

I don't think Amy that James was heading at something like that. From what I read (I almost read all the messages) I understood that James was seeing the broader picture in a sociological way. How many Amy Kings do we have around? Let's face it Amy without any false modesty. One needs a lot of guts to get work, study, poetry, eating and sleeping in one single day, and not only for one day, but for an entire life. This I think is what James meant, and I do not think he is too distant from you either. There is a poem if I am right of when he worked at the harbor, but here I might be inventing.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: amy king 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views 
  Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] NatPoMo


  I second Jason here.  The first poetry that ever thrilled me happened to be a Black Sparrow edition of Stein's poems I picked up by chance when I first started college.  "Poetry" was just a Hallmark beautification until then.  I'll spare you the details, but I too was a member of the lower class that you just pompously characterized and devalued.  I'd read those poems aloud to friends on the phone because I was excited to share and hear them become from my very own tongue.  Many of those friends had inner city educations in the lower class neighborhoods as well; some enjoyed the work and became curious, while others were merely entertained by the 'silly' nonsensical value.  

  Are you telling me that the various experiences we shared with those poems were not valuable or authentic because we didn't grow up with money and were not 'properly cultured' or educated?  Because we were tired after working two jobs - and thinking wasn't feasible?  That mountain you occupy must be very difficult to see from -- your myopia is incredibly astounding ... 'most' tired poor people have the most elementary of intellectual lives that can only rise to level of absorbing tv?  Anyone who does is an exception?  Jeez.


  JforJames at aol.com wrote:
    In a message dated 4/15/2007 3:55:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jfq at myuw.net writes:
      Just because a guy makes minimum wage he won't be interested in difficult art? As someone who has worked for minimum wage and 
      lived well below the poverty level for most of my adult life, i can tell you from first hand experience that you're full of it and you're teetering on 
      the edge of a repressive bourgeois elitism that is callous, insulting, and condescending.

    There are always exceptions. But wake up...don't you have a TV?
    Finnegan


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