[New-Poetry] Yah, baby...

[Suzanne Baran]

That was brilliantly stated. Time to make that my email signature quote!

On 2/14/07, Suzanne Burns <queenmouse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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>
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> 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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