Hi Lawrence, I am way way back in reading messages on this list, but I like
what you say here:
> Making an impact is partly a curatorial function; and a failure to make an
> impact may be to do with others manipulating the exchanges of poetics into
a
> market biased towards themselves
out of which, and/or by which, and/or together with which I can say:
(as I already said.. ah repetitions!)
that in our contexts art is art or poetry is poetry only when performed
without any finality of being sold. i.e. when the artist or poet has a job
that sustains her (first since I am a woman)/him and performs artistically
out of whatever but the urge of paying bills. Otherwise it is a business,
and as such the stinking mud of recycling, copying, re/inventing, sticking
together, pasting, soup-ing, is smelt from far,
_in our society as it is in this moment, poet or artist can be someone who
has retired and has dedicated much of her/his life to art, at this point I
am willing to recognize the said person with such a title,
this said, back to sneeze a little, ciao, Anny
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Academic Verse
> Hang on
>
> Not making an impact and not being very interesting and not necessarily
the
> same thing
> Not being very interesting is not the same thing as being mediocre /
> incompetent
>
> Making an impact is partly a curatorial function; and a failure to make an
> impact may be to do with others manipulating the exchanges of poetics into
a
> market biased towards themselves
>
> Otherrwise, er, yes
>
> L
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 08 February 2005 12:15
> Subject: Re: Academic Verse
>
>
>
> There have
> >always been lots of not very interesting poets and there will continue
> >to be. From a given group of arts students, historians, writers,
> >philosophers, chemists &c very few will go on to make any impact upon
> >their field of enthusiasm, don't you think. So, why the problem
> >specifically with artists and poets? So, there is a lot of mediocre
> >competency about. That's no bad thing - or is it?
> >
> >love and love
> >cris
> >
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