” Ideologies are of course just systematic ways of misunderstanding the world. They are the province of herd thinkers, people who have the answer before they’ve heard the question, and they always have the same answer. The more ardently liberal or conservative they are, the worse they are. Serious ones get bitter and start lying […]
Month: May 2010
Quote, on avant gardes and american poetry
“..My eighth observation is that there is really no longer a vital, high-art avant-garde in American poetry. Modernism is irretrievably, inarguably dead. It has been dead as a profitable avenue for young poets for at least twenty years, and now almost all of its great practitioners have gone to meet their maker. The university, an […]
..musing about labels and names: gender, relationship and sex bloggers
“..I bit my tongue and stood in line With not much to believe in I bought into what I was sold And ended up with nothing This is not my idea of a good time ..” – Garbage, “not my idea” This started as a comment at Poetry of Flesh’s blog… but it got too […]