[New-Poetry] hate

[jforjames at aol.com]

Anny, I can symphathize with Myles' frustrations. We all have our moments. But I have to say her plaint is somewhat scattershot.
It makes me think that sometimes we ask too much from our art, poetry in this case. Is poetry not giving us what we expected,
or, at times, do we expect too much from it? What were we promised other than a few touchstone poems that we can carry with us through time,
and the feeling that, once in great while, something we wrote rubbed against those magic momuments.

Posted this to my blog
http://ursprache.blogspot.com/
thinking about what Myles had to say...

It was not important that [the poems] survive.
What mattered was that they should bear
Some lineament or character, 

Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part. 


—Wallace Stevens, from “The Planet On The Table”

--
Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 8:02 am
Subject: [New-Poetry] hate


I am wondering, is Eileen Myles on this list? She write on :
I hate poetry @ Harriet's
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/05/i-hate-poetry/



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