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| re: Library Of Congress Poetry Room joey 22 Jun 08 6:48PM | Thread Closed |
s'not a crit, and i think that pretty much shows where you're at. i'll criticize this response -- it was to say to you that what you'd written wasn't what maybe you'd intended. but, dude, i'm way sophisticated and also and concurrently think that you might just have made a mistake and dropped the comma. it's no big thing.
what are the textbooks your reading, that you find a profile of "narrow-minded" such that it would exclude the author's focusing on writing the book itself? i don't think you've ever read that book. here's, specifically, the title of one such book:
"presentation of self in everyday life", by Erving Goffman. it's non-fiction, but you may be able to read this -- you probably read a lot of non-fiction and don't realize that's what you're reading. kind of the way you read my posts.
why'n't you crit one of my poems now. one of the hard ones, since you're so hard-core?
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| re: Library Of Congress Poetry Room nugunz 14 Jul 08 10:20AM | Thread Closed |
I dig it. Poetry is one of the few forms of art left that I feel isn't jaded by being commercialized, or turned into a "product". It isn't practiced for monatary gain so much as for a spiritual one. Also, out of a population of billions, I like the idea that I'm doing something that not everyone gets.
It's like knowing about a really great underground band.
Also, since there really is no reason to write poetry except for your own enjoyment, this cuts out the need for elitists, or at least, their importance. Poetry, while not FOR everyone, could be. And all you need to enjoy yourself in the poetry world is the abilty to relate.
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| re: Library Of Congress Poetry Room nugunz 14 Jul 08 10:42AM | Thread Closed |
Then again. If I had published work, I wouldn't want it getting lost by some chain smoking jumped up wallmart hick.
I used to work with those people.
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| re: Library Of Congress Poetry Room joey 14 Jul 08 11:16AM | Thread Closed |
yes, i think it's partly that we get to hand-craft language and partly it's the need to sing in the way we can and do. i imagine "soaring" existing as a form in every kind of practiced art. i do think that the poem's suggestion of soaring, as a feeling invented in the reader, by creating "the world and space and time" in a poem, is the great truth of poetry.
> I dig it. Poetry is one of the few forms of art left that I feel
> isn't jaded by being commercialized, or turned into a "product". It
> isn't practiced for monatary gain so much as for a spiritual one.
> Also, out of a population of billions, I like the idea that I'm doing
> something that not everyone gets.
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> It's like knowing about a really great underground band.
>
> Also, since there really is no reason to write poetry except for your
> own enjoyment, this cuts out the need for elitists, or at least, their
> importance. Poetry, while not FOR everyone, could be. And all you need
> to enjoy yourself in the poetry world is the abilty to relate.
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