We can only hope so. Perhaps it will also result in the end of the stranglehold cynical pretentious self-aggrandising intellectuals imagine they have over poetry so that it can go back to being something with meaning in the lives of the people who fix their cars and clean their homes. But I doubt it.
K. Silem Mohammad is the author of several collections of poetry, including Deer Head Nation, Breathalyzer, and The Front. He edits the poetry magazine Abraham Lincoln and is faculty editor of West Wind Review. He teaches creative writing and literature at Southern Oregon University.
10 comments:
say it ain't so, joe
answer: no. why would it?
absolutely not... simple as that.
I think it is. It's time for a new set of unicorns to take over. You had a good run though. Well played, blah blah blah...
all the other unicorns suck
Here's a reason to unicorn:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/07guns.html
No. There will always be something
to flarf.
We can only hope so. Perhaps it will also result in the end of the stranglehold cynical pretentious self-aggrandising intellectuals imagine they have over poetry so that it can go back to being something with meaning in the lives of the people who fix their cars and clean their homes. But I doubt it.
PaulS is making several assumptions.
Poetry still fixes my car.
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