The definition should be,
"Young people against Wasted Time"
not Poetry.
The idea of rebelliousness against Poetry seems to me rather
naive and undeveloped.
Does the phrase mean, maybe,
"Young peopel against publishing houses, the institutions regulating the
media market" and so on?
Of which they are the first victims?
Poetry can be servile at the table of the Mighty, but also has been the
site for rebelliousness.
If these non-identified generalized "young" people (by the way, what does it
mean to be young? To call oneself young? I have students aged 21 who are in
their hearts older and more depressed and unmotivated of lots of very
old people I know who have a very young heart and produce incredible work
booth as old people and as poets.)
want to be against something
wouldn't it be better for them to be against
the deceitful time that youth represents? Read Leopardi and you will be
completely convinced of that.
Young people against Youth. Meaning to be self-critical of ones stage.
I am only eleven, so I am very far from entering this dull problematic time
with is adolescence and late adolescence.
They say it will be bad.
I am trying to slow down time so that I will never be against Poetry.
(also, sadly enough, every rebel is deep inside a future reactionary).
Erminia
----- Original Message -----
From: Clayton Hansen <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Young People Against Poetry
>
>
> I saw a small slice of footage on the nightly news re: young people
against
> poetry. My immediate reaction was...gawd, what next. A plane with a
banner
> ...Poetry Wrecks Lives (I think)...flew over the BWF and three young
people -
> one with a blue bucket on his head - sat on the steps of the Art Gallery
> precinct staring out mournfully at the Brisbane river. Just another day
> without a fishing rod I guess.
>
>
> Clayton
>
>
> William Fox wrote:
>
> > does anyone know which poets are featuring at Brisbane writer's
festival?
> > frankly i have no idea, but these 'young people', champions of the
rap/hip
> > hop cause, are being a tad hypocritical, because a lot of rap/hip hop
songs
> > preach elitism - involving clans, gangs, mobs. that said, i don't deny
the
> > poetry of that kind of music...but i think these young peeps are
> > overstepping the mark. i want to know how many people in Brisbane
actually
> > read poetry...under 5% of the population? i don't know how that can
> > constitute a cultural divide.
> >
> > as for rage against the machine; their music - especially in tandem with
> > their music videos - is as powerful as any good poem.
>
>
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