Who else has been trying to flood Facebook with poetry? Which poet were you assigned? Here, enjoy some Andrei Codrescu. ---- A Geography of Poets is all wrong, ed what poets now live where they say they do where they started out where they want to half the midwesterners did time in new york the other half in california only new yorkers write as if they are from new york and mostly they are not the ones in california were wounded elsewhere when they feel better or cant afford the rent theyll go back where they came from this is america you get hurt where you are born you make poetry out of it as far from home as you can get you die somewhere in between the only geography of poets is greyhound general motors rules them all ubi patria ibi bene or ibi bene ubi patria bread out of nostalgia not a lot of it either some of us came from very far maps dont help much
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:36:26 +0000
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