"We—many of us—live in the United States so we know that Americans tend to like their art a little on the, shall we say, entertaining side. So what? All song and dance to mask the complexity endemic to all content. We know, too, that underneath questions about “goodness” and “deadness” are related capitalist assumptions of exchange value and use. What is it good for? The ways the poetry that interests me most attempts to speak, however, disrobes these assumptions and presents instead alternative languages to, in Erica Hunt’s words, the “dominant modes of discourse, the language of ordinary life or of rationality, of moral management, of the science and the state, the hectoring threats of the press and media, [that] use convention and label to bind and organize us.” In poetry as in other art forms, there is at least, the potential for liberation."
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 05:13:49 +0000
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