Agreed, completely.
Stand-up, Barry? Surely you jest.
Judy
2008/10/13 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
> While not filled with optimism, I still feel "Poetry" is in much better
> shape than before the
> internet. Even then, it was in better shape than before rock & roll, with
> the terms "poet"
> and "poetry" being attached to figures (Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan)
> whose audience
> numbers in the millions. Just yesterday I was considering how a google
> search on my
> name and a rocking grid backing my oral rendition of texts could amplify
> the audience for
> a reading I'm scheduled to give in an area of this country where I wouldn't
> claim to be
> "known". More "hooks" available than ever before--why not use them. Which
> reminds
> me of the border between stand-up comedy and performance art, along which
> I've been
> known to walk.
>
> Barry Alpert
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:02:09 +0100, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Some people these days say that poetry is dead, some violently deny
> >it. My current image of the art is that of Desdemona while being, and
> >after, suffocated by Othello: murdered but still talking in its last
> >gasps, raising up from its pillow on a final breath. The
> >Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I Ching has a line somewhere :
> >'persistently ill, but still does not die' , which takes one beyond
> >poor Desdemona, as of course her last revival is, well, curtains for
> >her if not quite then the play.
> >
> >--
> >David Bircumshaw
> >Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> >The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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