well I hate to disappoint you, but I never feel natural entertaining
political thoughts in my poetry. all the subtle metaphoric reference
needed to make something like that not jump down collective throats is
something I've never felt up to. poetry & politics have always been a
cringe mix for me; maybe it's the fact that a political overtone
negates many other dimensions in a poem, in a way: suddenly it's not
just a poem, it's a statement & a stand & a speech & a polemic. I
prefer to write poetry.
KS
On 15/03/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Janet, thanks so much. I'm flattered.
> > it's 'consolation' alright; 'constellation' would be a little strange,
> > since that stanza is an image of the moon.
>
> The moon. Wow.
> I thought it might be a person, maybe Al Gore, or maybe an artist
> of some kind. Maybe it is that, as well as the moon.
>
> Perhaps you didn't set out to write a political poem but
> it seems like one to me. There's a lot of talk here about
> whether we should be using nuclear power, which Australia
> doesn't currently use, to save us from global warming.
> Out of the frying pan into the fire, if you ask me.
> There's a lot of uranium in the ground and people wanting
> to make money out of it, I guess, and not as much money to
> be made from solar or wind power.
>
> Janet
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> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
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