tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post8238276307791909068..comments2024-01-11T03:14:22.238-08:00Comments on The Weekly Rader: Poetry & Popular CultureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-37864171798079285082010-10-10T06:55:17.254-07:002010-10-10T06:55:17.254-07:00Hello
I have to say I think my recent chapbook, c...Hello<br /><br />I have to say I think my recent chapbook, closing invectives, engages the typical working class perspective, and tends towards a kind of lyricism. I have extracts on my blog, and details of the book - www.aspharpoetry.blogspot.com. Example;<br /><br />black stars come drown me out<br />you made us drunk<br />on our dead notes<br /><br />dissimilated<br />bread from head<br />loves blood red money on<br />paper notes<br /><br />now prove the human has a face<br />cutting through like headlines<br />deadlines<br /><br />Well - I am working class : SXXXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15479356675074070162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-37148004168958592152009-07-20T18:51:09.762-07:002009-07-20T18:51:09.762-07:00If you want to read poetry about the working class...If you want to read poetry about the working class that Couric would understand and probably like read Tom Sexton's A Clock with no Hands, Adastra Press. Here's one poem:<br /><br />Lowell's Irish Mickey Ward<br /><br />Round 2. Ward's left eye is already cut,<br />but he keeps moving toward Arturo Gatti.<br />My wife's gone to bed and turned out the light.<br />Gatti's left hook sounds like a thunderclap.<br />I haven't watched a fight in many years,<br />not since I moved away from Lowell.<br />A Celtic Cross glistens on Ward's shoulder.<br />I wince as he shakes off blow after blow.<br />He has my uncle Leo's fighter's face,<br />with features almost as flat as a stone.<br />Staggered by a right, he picks up the pace.<br />I want to see a hurt Gatti go down.<br />They fight to a draw. Closed eye for closed eye.<br />I go to bed shamefaced as stubbornly tribal.<br /><br />The lines would fit, but it's an English sonnet.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09386643727860050097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-57273858409778446652008-06-24T19:49:00.000-07:002008-06-24T19:49:00.000-07:00IS POETRY TOO COMPLICATED for the average reader? ...IS POETRY TOO COMPLICATED for the average reader? Yes!<BR/><BR/>I don't think it's the elitist image of poetry that's the problem. I think it's the poetry itself.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-80291580601856499352008-06-17T18:11:00.000-07:002008-06-17T18:11:00.000-07:00Good questions!See today's post.Good questions!<BR/><BR/>See today's post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-22024393284484542852008-06-17T12:14:00.000-07:002008-06-17T12:14:00.000-07:00Face it, poetry is far down the list of what "most...Face it, poetry is far down the list of what "most" of us can get to in a day, that is unless we are in academia or have trust funds. For better or worse, the image of poetry has become synonymous with poseurs hanging out in coffee shops, poetry "slams" or maybe someone reading poetry in a field while holding one hand to chin. Poetry needs to work on its accessibility. If NASCAR did it, so can poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-44826048135206831252008-06-15T10:24:00.000-07:002008-06-15T10:24:00.000-07:00Now that we have pop music, why do we still need p...Now that we have pop music, why do we still need poetry?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com