Now this is very interesting. Even for those of us resigned to nothing more interesting than a position of suboptimal centrality in the poetry world.
More interestingly still: Where would poetry itself stand in a chart squaring off The Arts?
Now this is very interesting. Even for those of us resigned to nothing more interesting than a position of suboptimal centrality in the poetry world.
More interestingly still: Where would poetry itself stand in a chart squaring off The Arts?
I thought about that — it’d be marginal, for sure, and probably suboptimal. I mean, when was the last time a set of ideas or practices originating in poetry changed the other arts in a significant way? There may be something I’m overlooking, since the coffee’s still brewing and the brain functions slowly, but still…
Well, some *have* claimed that poets are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’….
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