You wrote: "The celebrated poetry of our day is stupid, asinine, humiliating, sterile, laborious, ugly, treacherous, posturing, insulting, worthless, destructive, licentious, false and an all around affront to decency and greatness. And when it is not busy being a grotesque monstrosity, it addresses us as naked propaganda, not even having the courtesy of making itself comely..."
Come on, this is horseshit.Just recently our Laureate was Joy Harjo and that was at the center of the system. She is brilliant. There is tons of junk but that is what taste is for, to find the radiance. Plenty of it around, coming in from the four directions, just some of the stuff coming out of Ukraine (see Kaminsky for clues) is as good as anything from the good olds. Everything that is silver and lights the night waxes and wanes. Write from what you love to what you love about what you love. Save the mudslinging for the idiot wind of social media.
Thank you for reading, Andrew. I very much enjoy your work and am glad of your engagement. In the future though, please make your comments with a view to constructive dialogue. The point of these essays is to generate conversation, even disagreeable conversation, but nevertheless conducted without ad hominem vituperation. God bless
Amen!
You wrote: "The celebrated poetry of our day is stupid, asinine, humiliating, sterile, laborious, ugly, treacherous, posturing, insulting, worthless, destructive, licentious, false and an all around affront to decency and greatness. And when it is not busy being a grotesque monstrosity, it addresses us as naked propaganda, not even having the courtesy of making itself comely..."
Come on, this is horseshit.Just recently our Laureate was Joy Harjo and that was at the center of the system. She is brilliant. There is tons of junk but that is what taste is for, to find the radiance. Plenty of it around, coming in from the four directions, just some of the stuff coming out of Ukraine (see Kaminsky for clues) is as good as anything from the good olds. Everything that is silver and lights the night waxes and wanes. Write from what you love to what you love about what you love. Save the mudslinging for the idiot wind of social media.
Plus, I have never met anyone who used the word whore as an insult who wasn't courting misogyny in their off time. Drop that shit and show don't tell.
Thank you for reading, Andrew. I very much enjoy your work and am glad of your engagement. In the future though, please make your comments with a view to constructive dialogue. The point of these essays is to generate conversation, even disagreeable conversation, but nevertheless conducted without ad hominem vituperation. God bless
Thanks for the input, bud