Dissertation on the Importance of Poetry to Society
If you have all your needs met and you're bored by everything else, then, maybe you'll read a poem...but odds are you'll masturbate instead.
posted by John Tischer @ 11:26 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
there's no sense in over-recognizing our importance
what you say is 100 percent correct
now, once you get over the boo-hoos of chix no longer dig us and nobody thinks we're very important anymore,
are there lines of escape?
can poetry move from a commodity that scores men loads of chix and cultural capital to something that (potentially, and only potentially) moves people towards community?
well, that may be the case, but then poetry has to be abolished/ignored/farted on
dadaism/surrealism...they left traces of where we should be heading
poetry has never been more culturally irrelevant (wait! didnt Billy Corgan write a book of poems?) and more culturally relevant at the same time
borp :)
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I think poetry was (is) important when culture itself is important. One can point to France from the turn of the 20th century through the twenties, when all the arts were important and supported by the population in general. That was a phenomena of time and place. The late fifties, early sixties in San Francisco was another example. A few years later, and poetry forund it's expression more through music. What form is culture taking now? Three minute spots on Youtube? The word is taking a beating. I'm not saying it won't make a comeback. Maybe surreal and Dadaist forms are a good way for it to get attention right now. It will take a kind of revival of the printed word.
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