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'Groanometer' light blinking!!!! Bells & whistles sounding!!! Way off the "groan" humour-continuum!!! (Judy just engioiaing herself) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Reactionary Republican Memorization or, Recite the Testimony of Alberto Gonzales > He's a good-hearted simple fellow that Gioia. I used to > dislike him, but now I'm enGioiaing him. > > Hal > > "Information cannot argue with a closed mind." > --Mike Nichols and Elaine May > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html > > > On May 7, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote: > >> "Gioia said he once feared that poetry had become so complicated that it >> would never appeal to a mass audience. The rise of rap in the 1980s >> underscored an unarticulated need for the oral tradition in U.S. >> society, he >> said." >> >> I've heard this line from Gioia before. I'd like to ask him which >> hip-hop >> record he slid into the CD player this morning when he got in his car to >> drive to work. (Guess: The Montovani Strings do Tupac.) I'm sorry to see >> my >> old pal Gerry LaFemina hanging around in such bad company. >> >> On the other hand, the performance of the Robert >> Hayden<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/196>poem was fine & poetry >> recitation is fine. I don't think it's a bad thing to >> encourage students to memorize and recite poetry. More Hayden poems >> here<http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3014> >> . >> >> -- >> Joseph Duemer >> Professor of Humanities >> Clarkson University >> Weblog: sharpsand.net >