[New-Poetry] Re: Re: u say gunman?

[Crisman Cooley]

Sorry, can't let this pass.  If you read the book "The Gift" by L.  
Hyde (should be on that non-poetry poetry reading list we've never  
seen compiled), or if you ever got married or tried to love anyone  
for more than 2 hours, and have access to the neuron where the memory  
is stored, you will sense the falsehood of "...how everything we do  
socially is exchange of coomodities [sic]".  I'm not really taking  
aim at you BG, but at an idea I detest: that everything may be (or  
is) commoditized.  Hyde slices this idea neatly in seventeen ways,  
showing the pervasiveness and difference of gift exchange (that is,  
in newspeak 'paying it forward'-- giving without knowing when or how  
or whether anything will come back, but having FAITH in a gift  
community, knowing that it might), giving examples from Pound and  
Whitman.  Lacking his book's subtlety and being away from my library,  
I encapsulate my horror at the idea of the world being solely a place  
of commodity exchange by challenging the economist who invented it to  
sell shares in his wife's pussy.

Strike one against Babylon!

> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:29:55 -0500
> From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] u say gunman?
>
>
>
>   to my ear (you can call it tin ha ha), this is a little closer
>
>
>   standards are lies, the amoral is
>   in commodified verse that pretends it's not biz
>
>   Well, Chris, better, I'd say, but I tried to keep the words the  
> same.
>
>   The mention of (can I speak it??) . . .  "commodity" made me  
> think again about how everything we do socially is exchange of  
> coomodities--from which I suddenly realized with amusement that   
> attention is said to be PAID.  I wonder how that came to be.   
> Anyway, anything we write or say has to be intended to at least  
> earn attention (even if we write or speak to ourselves alone).
>
>   Okay, I'm going back to bed.
>
>   --Bob
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