[New-Poetry] "political poetry" (was new on wordstrumpet)

[Rachel Loden]

Thanks, Tad --  and I was very intrigued by your post "A Low Dishonest
Decade":

http://opusforty.blogspot.com/2008/01/low-dishonest-decade.html

I agree with Forster, for the most part, but not with the usually astute
Johnny Cash. Folk song and politics are inextricably mixed, unless we want
to deep-six "This Land Is Your Land" or "Silver Dagger" just for example.

It always makes me laugh when people say they're not interested in (what
they like to call) "political poetry." Did they imagine there was another
kind? Some fish don't see water, but they're swimming in it.

On the other hand, I'm not much interested in what often *passes* for
political poetry -- agitprop and sloganeering, I mean.

Rachel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheOldMole [mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:20 AM
> To: r_loden at sbcglobal.net; NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry 
> News & Views
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] new on wordstrumpet: nixon vets the 
> candidates &c.
> 
> As a faithful wordstrumpeter, I had read this and loved it.
> 
> Rachel Loden wrote:
> >   
> >    http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >     * How Would Nixon Vote? Tricky D. Vets the Candidates
> >  
> >     * A Poem for Primaries: Milhous as King of the Ghosts
> >
> >     * The Moist Lotus Open Along Acheron: Sappho, psychopomp &c.
> >
> >     * The Important Looking Men (with a Note from Mairéard Byrne)
> >
> >     * Speechless: Woody Allen on the WGA strike; the 
> "right-to-sing" state
> >
> >     * Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction: Knox, Manguso & more
> >
> >     * The More Things Change Dept.: Some Remarks on Humor 
> by E.B. White
> >
> >     * Susan Sontag: An Argument about Beauty
> >
> >     * Concord in the Sixties: Hawthorne, the Alcotts, the Civil War
> >
> >      * Poetry and the Theory of Heartbreak
> >
> >     *  A Fresh Face, Somebody Who Understands: Nixon and Rumsfeld
> >
> >     *  My Wicked Caddywumpus Ways: Blurb-Composition & 
> other confusions
> >
> >     *  A Page from the Dangerfield Playbook: the Stephen T. 
> Colbert Award
> > for the Literary Excellence
> >
> >     *  Poetry, Grimness, and Gallows Humor: Mlinko, Brecht, 
> Lerner, Flarf
> > &c.
> >
> >     *  Adventures in Heresiology: Patrolling the Perimeter of the
> > Avant-garde
> >
> >     *  Academy of Fine Arts: Linh Dinh by Jonathan Hill
> >
> >     *  Poem in Spanish (with a Note from Paul Hoover)
> >
> >     *  M. A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein
> >
> >      http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> 
> The moral is this: in American verse,
> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>   --Corey Ford
>