[New-Poetry] The Body Po(e)litic

[Anny Ballardini]

For one, Susan Schultz published her blog in a book titled Dementia, or My
Mother's Dementia.

On the other hand, the much I would like to agree with Jeremy Schmall's
quotation [just to say: you see, I am on the right side], the many more
examples I have of people who are exploiting poetry for their own businesses
and careers. But idealistically Schmall is 90% right. The visual arts that
have lately undergone a very strong shift: or you die or you succeed in
terms of monetary support, have drastically fallen into the pit, the
argument is again 90% right. Not to talk of the cinema, on the other hand we
all know that cult movies are continuously produced, therefore any statement
has to be taken within broad margins.

Without generalizing by sectors why don't we consider the Person, the
Artist. I know excellent and successful Poets who could fit the
anti-globalism tag, and have been working hard intellectually to live in
that narrow gap.


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know, Chris, but those are certainly good questions to ask.
>
> I suppose that poetry is different from blogging because blogging exists
> solely in a virtual space.  Poetry still has a foothold (however tenuous) in
> the print world.  I'm not sure that this distinction matter, however.
>
> Does this all go back to the way that we (maybe "I") think of *literature*?
> I'm still foolish enough to think that literature is unquantifiable--that
> there is something that happens beyond measurement.  Of course, it's that
> very quality that makes poetry (and all art, for that matter) to fit into a
> consumer culture.  Having said that, I like the idea of getting paid to
> write--though, these days, that a rare thing indeed.  I like that I can
> purchase good books of poetry, much in the same way that I like that I can
> purchase a fine novel.
>
> But maybe we're discussing two separate issues here.
>
> Best,
> Jeff Newberry
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chris Lott <chris at chrislott.org> wrote:
>
>> Without any intent to be a smartass, how does this idea of the place
>> and work of poetry make it different than, say, blogging... which
>> similarly exists in the interstices (except when it doesn't), yet has
>> broad dissemination (or the potential), is independent of the yoke of
>> publisher gatekeeping (except when it isn't), etc?
>>
>> Is there something special about the uselessness of poetry, that it is
>> usually seen in the near single-valence of "art" or something, that
>> distinguishes it?
>>
>> c
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