tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post3347359400023109774..comments2024-01-05T20:26:44.857-08:00Comments on Thinking Again: That's Entertainmentmark wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-63615513206849340852007-09-23T19:39:00.000-07:002007-09-23T19:39:00.000-07:00When I write, I think of "the reader" as someone e...When I write, I think of "the reader" as someone easily bored, dull-witted and nasty. I've found it to be quite accurate. With such a creature in mind, being entertaining is clearly a necessity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-31124985016625435012007-09-19T23:53:00.000-07:002007-09-19T23:53:00.000-07:00The SUNY (Binghamton) writers festival in 1987 utt...The SUNY (Binghamton) writers festival in 1987 utterly affected the way I viewed performance. Ginsberg, Baraka, Rothenberg, Woiwode (and others) gave mainstage performances most of us couldn't even dream of performing -- or should. Jazz blues & poetry clarinet? I decided then to focus on recitation but with the hope that it would at least not be boring. I read as far as I know directly; audiences have laughed a lot when I do that in fiction and so far not in poems. Once, I had the plan to translate 20 of my poems to Latin and read them out. The idea was very funny to me. Then a friend sent Horace to me via email, and my Latin seemed too poor to go ahead w/ my plan. AMBAnn_Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04999407261486108269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-80973897151210726092007-09-19T20:06:00.000-07:002007-09-19T20:06:00.000-07:00Life can be entertaining, and if literature is plu...Life can be entertaining, and if literature is plundering all the rich depths of life, why why shouldn't some entertaining elements creep in, at least if it is part of the greater ideas of the work? Of course, there are different forms of entertainment and engagement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-30418888830895897342007-09-16T21:07:00.000-07:002007-09-16T21:07:00.000-07:00The sad truth here is that, for so many, thinking ...The sad truth here is that, for so many, thinking isn't entertaining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com