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Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are ethical activities when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own
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At the peak of its popularity
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
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And when context becomes the new content,
CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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Each community could have its own journal
And each journal its own community, An unintended consequence was that
It became easier for communities
To atomize into the same windowless
Monads that have come to characterize
American society in toto.
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The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
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And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
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Combined with contemporaneous Statistics which show that submitters to
Print magazines reliably outnumber Their subscribers by a factor of ten
It becomes impossible not to conclude,
As he does, that many more people write
Poetry than read it.
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Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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Craig Dworkin estimates
That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
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Which has the lowest barrier to entry Of any art form in any medium,
Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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Surrenders at last to the visual
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[T]he curator is interested not in what... texts "say" but rather in what words occur in these texts and what words do not. (Emphasis added.)
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In a closed text, the writer
Retains "directive" "authority" over The "passive" reader, while in an open text
The absence of control mechanisms Like narrative, syntax, and formatting,
Makes the reader an active participant
In constructing the meaning of the text,
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Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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To stimulate recursive discourses Someone at the Stanford Literary Lab ought to crunch the numbers to see whether- and, if so, by what factor-the poems that take poetry-implicitly or explicitly as their subject matter have increased over the last hundred years. include
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To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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humanities scholars are no strangers to the logics of fad & fashion, fostered, in their case,by the requirement that dissertations contain original research & in the "publish or perish" bellum omnium contra omnes that plays itself out in tenure committees #Ruby25 #ContextCollapse
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as the rapacious
Scramble to lay one's claim to novelty Comes to operate under conditions Of informational saturation
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●Hasn't the epithet poet's poet basically become a pleonasm?
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Not: "poet-critic." Rather: poet-scholar.
When the set of producers overlaps The set of consumers in an Euler Diagram of the literary field,
The centrifuges of innovation
Spin that much more quickly, actualizing
And exhausting the potential resources
Of the medium
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Or received an MFA or PhD.
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The university provides the context in which many &perhaps most, poetry readers are first introduced tothe writing of our time;it may even be,as has sometimes been argued, the context in which the majority of all poems-are both written & read.
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The best-known modernist poets could access Private incomes #Ruby25
William Carlos Williams- doctor
Eliot- banker;
Stevens -vp of insurance co
Moore- part-time librarian
Crane worked for father's candy factory
Pound- lived by his pen
Stein had inherited wealth
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What is it? Glad you asked. If to imagine A language is to imagine a form Of life, then what, pray tell, is the form of life Of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E?
Answer: Academia.
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L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E was an avant-garde poetry magazine edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews
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The Sewanee Review
arguing that an "author's intent"
Was,at a minimum, unknowable
And would be, moreover, irrelevant To any appraisal of a poem
Even were it possible to know it,
An act of critical commodity Fetishism
so brazen one wonders
How it achieved hegemony
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In Barthes's notorious paraphrase, when
C'est le langage qui parle [et] pas l'auteur.
Now do you agree? Anyhow. QED.
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Were doing, combined with her stuplime flood
Of paratactic fragments and run-ons
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A portmanteau of stupid and sublime coined by Sianne Ngai to capture the affect of shock-boredom-astonishment-
fatigue produced by the ""thick' language" of so much modern & postmodern lit
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