[New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count

[millb at aol.com]

Let me play devil's advocate.

Much has been made on this thread of those explotive writers who "bear witness" or write about war and tragedies from news articles and not from first hand experience.? Blink, Blink.? What exactly is wrong with that?? 

Marianne Moore certainly crafted worthy poems out of newspaper clippings, as did Sylvia Plath and TS Eliot and probably more, but I cannot think of any right now. Certainly Shakespeare drew on Mirror for Magistrates and historical stories for his plays. What's wrong with CD Wright perhaps being inspired by something less than throwing herself into volunteer work on the battlefield?

Mill


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Sam, documentary photographers don't often pay people to shoot their images. A simple release form is enough
to clear publication. Nothing about the photographs (or poetry) strikes me as exploitive. Nothing I heard in Wright's 
presentation led me to think, as artistic?collaborators, they?were?doing anything more than throwing light (in both photographic and 
poetic sense) on a obscure, unseen part of the vast US penal system. 

I don't know the Judy Davis/Woody Allen?reference, I'm afraid, but a well-produced, large format?book of photographs is an 'art book'.
They're?costly, true.?But the term?'coffee table book' seems pointed?perjorative in a?Loganesque way.
Finnegan

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http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Self-Prisoners-Louisiana/dp/1931885257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214884493&sr=1-1

James, please read what I wrote.? This is the coffee-table book I was talking about (and I stand by what I said about its being suitable for the fictional Judy Davis's coffee table).? Did the persons depicted in these photographs and poems receive any compensation (to which they were surely entitled)?? I read somewhere that they did receive snapshot-size versions of their photos.? I call this exploitative.? 

Sam 

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