[New-Poetry] Yah, baby...

[Suzanne Burns]

Good article.  I particularly like the quote from my old classmate, Joel
Brower.  Couldn't have said this better myself:

Joel Brouwer, a poet reviewing a collection in the Times Book Review in
December, wrote, "Contemporary poetry's great good fortune (despite contrary
claims from certain hand-wringers mad to see poems affixed to every
slot-machine, taxi stand and flowerpot in the land) is that it has no mass
market, and so no call to pander."

I have come to realize that of the things that makes poetry valuable to me
is precisely that it *isn't* a commodity that can be harnessed up to make
money.  It is therefore free to do a different kind of work.


Suzanne




On 2/13/07, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_goodyear
>
> THE MONEYED MUSE
> What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?
> by DANA GOODYEAR
> Issue of 2007-02-19
> Posted 2007-02-12
>
>
> Michael Lewis, a journalist and the author of "Liar's Poker" and
> "Moneyball," appeared in the magazine Poetry for the first time in the
> summer of 2005, with a satirical piece called "How to Make a Killing from
> Poetry: A Six Point Plan of Attack." It offered its advice in bullet-point
> businessese: "1) Think Positive. Nobody likes a whiner. And poets always
> seem to be harping on the negative. . . . 2) Take Your New Positive Attitude
> and Direct It Towards the Paying Customer. The customer is your friend. Your
> typical poem really doesn't seem to pay much attention to the living retail
> customer. . . . 3) Think About Your Core Message. Your average reader might
> like a bit of fancy writing, but at the end of the day he will always ask
> himself: what's my takeaway?
>
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