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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:14 AM Original message |
Salon: "Wonderful" poem: "That's how poetry works, distinguishes itself from prose ... preaching." |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. Poetry is NOT garbled prose. |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Are you saying you thought yesterday's poem was "garbled prose"? |
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progdonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. no, it was awful... |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Well, once again, I suppose it's subjective. I liked her delivery. |
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progdonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. so you quote an opposite "intellectual bully"? |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Her vocal tone and the over-enunciation was definitely a problem. I found |
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progdonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. maybe she's the Sheryl Crow of poetry? |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
35. LOL, I nearly put a sentence in my first post about Bob Dylan. |
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progdonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-23-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #35 |
49. ha, same here... ;-) n/t |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. think more men didn't get it - or rejected the female images in |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. I thought there were more male images than female images |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Boy, aren't men just soooo dumb? |
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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. I don't think not getting a poem makes a person dumb. |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. I got what the poem was about |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. LOL! |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
9. One thing we can ALL agree on ... now THIS is POETRY! |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 01:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Well, technically, it's dancing. However |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. If you're going to be like that, it's photography :-) |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. I liked her poem, which continued the flow of poetry that began |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. The Daily Show's response to this was great |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. the Daily Show's response was mean and nasty |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Mean, nasty...and FUNNY! |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-23-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #16 |
51. I saw the inauguration in a movie theater and people were leaving just like in the Stewart Sketch. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. She carried the big theme of black America's struggle? |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I thought she was speaking to everyone |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Pretty much, yeah |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
38. And that is why it was so good. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Yes, she did. The poem remembered all those who had died (Edit) |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
22. That's a big old fail by Alex Koppelman |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. It's funny that you should mention that. I looked at the text for a while, |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. I thought her delivery was terrible. There was no rhythm whatsoever. And the words were stilted and |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 04:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. It evoked the promise of |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. That's EXACTLY what I thought. |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
28. I don't get poetry that doesn't rhyme.... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
29. Poetry should include a wee bit o'figurative language. Unless I'm just not getting the metaphors in |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Banality |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 10:28 AM Response to Reply #29 |
36. I Think Salon Is Being Forgiving |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
45. You might want to look it over again. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. My 10 year old immediately said "the poem was my favorite part". That is art, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
34. (shrug) This is always a problem when you have non-thinkers as critics. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Not sure to whom you refer, but: |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Also a problem when you define critics as non-thinkers (nt) |
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Sultana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
39. Her delivery sucked big-time, I couldn't bear to listen to the poem. |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
40. Every form of artistic expression is in the eye, ear, mind of the |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
42. Anyone who says "that's how poetry works" needs a cluebat |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. There is. It's called the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. And it says this particular delivery style is "how poetry works?" All of it? I doubt that (nt) |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Don't let me mess up your opinions. |
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Zomby Woof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
43. So people pile on a Pulitzer finalist |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. I haven't written a critical essay about a lyric in years but, man, |
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buzzycrumbhunger (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-23-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
50. I thought this was a much better poem for the day |
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