[New-Poetry] NatPoMo

[Anny Ballardini]

Too sassy? I wouldn't say so.  
  From: amy king 
  Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:57 PM


  Sorry, Anny -- I'm just getting irritated here.  I think it takes a lot of gall to characterize people who work hard for low wages as too tired to think beyond the purpose of Union poetry in their limited free time.  I've known many lower class people who engage in intellectual feats when they're not earning a wage, and not just my younger self; and absolutely, concern with wages is a priority, but not the only thing that occupies their minds.  To diminish their existence by allotting them "simple sentiment" and "straightfoward poetry"  with a limited use value of demanding more pay and benefits certainly puts poetry and them in a straight jacket I imagine they'd soon grow bored with - and shed just as quickly.  

  But my mama always did say I was too sassy growing up, so I'm off to live off line for a bit  ... 


  Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
    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.
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