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.
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> On 18 May 2015 at 09:02, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On 16/05/2015, at 3:41 AM, Max Richards wrote:
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>>> 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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