I have no idea Bill
On 18 May 2015 at 09:36, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> mmm. So how much poetry is emanating from the big pool do you think, DJB?
>
> Bill
>
> On 18/05/2015, at 6:14 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > Well Bill you know as the comforts of the Western (and Oriental) middle
> > classes largely depend on a huge expanded (and mostly, but not all, Third
> > World) international proletariat I suspect one could still make that
> claim.
> > Put it another way, there is a certain relationship between the enormous
> > global pool of cheap labour and the swell of (in particular)
> globe-trotting
> > Anglophone poets etc etc.
> >
> > On 18 May 2015 at 09:02, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Lively sounding poet this, Max. Condemned all round. Not sure that
> proles
> >> are 'drivers of the pen' so much any longer. Liked the critic who
> observed
> >> of M's later poems, 'Very Good, but not as good as Mayakovsky.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On 16/05/2015, at 3:41 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> >>
> >>> At eight o’clock that evening, Mayakovsky has his skull drilled so that
> >> his brain could be preserved, as an organ of genius, for future
> generations
> >> in the USSR. When weighed, it was found to be 360 grams heavier than
> >> Lenin’s, ‘which meant a bit of a headache for the ideologues of the
> Brain
> >> Institute’.
> >>> An inquest into the cause of death was launched immediately.
> >>> It found that the poet had shot himself ‘for personal reasons’.
> >>> But in this fascinating, long overdue biography, Bengt Jangfeldt
> >> presents a more complex solution.
> >>> Cause of death? Frustrated poetry.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/the-murder-of-mayakovskys-poetry/16957#.VVYvD-snXFI
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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