tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post6686130736360657351..comments2024-01-05T20:26:44.857-08:00Comments on Thinking Again: political poetrymark wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-61334294814670614932010-09-22T17:28:33.765-07:002010-09-22T17:28:33.765-07:00Hi
I've just put up a blog about the politica...Hi<br /><br />I've just put up a blog about the political in poetry; I'm having my first poetry chapbook published, but I have an interest in it also from an academic standpoint. I have some articles and sample work on it if anyone is interested in engaging with it; <br /><br />asphara.wordpress.com. <br /><br />I'd be interested to hear any views on the need to develop the political and critical moment in poetry in light of the monumental shifts in culture and communication over the last 30 years. Too few people are addressing themselves to this problem.XXXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15479356675074070162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-76609299048443384442010-09-21T11:10:04.503-07:002010-09-21T11:10:04.503-07:00I have a (liberal-leaning) political poetry blog (...I have a (liberal-leaning) political poetry blog (http://newsericks.com) and would be interested in all of your viewpoints on my work. Please check it out, and leave a comment to let me know what you think.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12734036073321011230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-39768614103831322312009-06-22T19:55:12.588-07:002009-06-22T19:55:12.588-07:00You are so right. I wish there was more of this ki...You are so right. I wish there was more of this kind of discussion here on the poetry scene in Australia. Great post!Maxinehttp://slamup.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-27584166219770658472008-02-12T08:49:00.000-08:002008-02-12T08:49:00.000-08:00interesting post.sandinteresting post.<BR/><BR/>sandSandra Simondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249665912348548090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-37681562680855699182008-02-10T12:26:00.000-08:002008-02-10T12:26:00.000-08:00This is very concise but hitting most of the relev...This is very concise but hitting most of the relevant points well. I think the other inevitable but arduous task is to analyze case by case, as you do with Sanders, the effective use of techniques in the past of both political and non-political poems. I think that worthwhile examples (at the low end of the scale) or masterpieces (at the high end) have been written in all of those categories of political poems.<BR/><BR/>I have come to agree that all poetry is ideological, but for some the latency of the ideological underpinnings enables certain freedom to spontaneously create possibilities, as in say Rimbaud, Beckett, Creeley, or Eigner. Creeley stated a belief that his poetry was affected by politics as little as possible. This freedom would seem to include the prerogative not to fixate on the ideology of one’s poems or to address it or talk back to it in the poem.Ian Keenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-81279679666565449962008-02-09T15:56:00.000-08:002008-02-09T15:56:00.000-08:00"Still, to frame things in that way makes the cate..."Still, to frame things in that way makes the category 'political' so large as to be practically meaningless..."<BR/><BR/>For me, the category "political" is practically meaningless, so much so that I can't find any interest in trying to rescue it from that meaninglessness. In fact, I would say it's best to hurry up and let it be meaningless. As you suggest, nothing is actually articulated when we say that a poem is political. I think it's useful to point that out, as you have done with this post. Then at least, any impulse to say that a poem is "political" can be replaced by an impulse to say what one actually might have in mind when one says such a thing, hopefully without even using the word "political." What one actually has in mind would depend on the particular case.Ryan W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01945769909647155149noreply@blogger.com