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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