...with enough force that I'm able to understand why this stuff is considered to be poetry:
"Five Poems from It's No Good"
(I'll let that book title go by without a snarky remark from me.)
In my un-slapped frame of mind, I wonder why this fellow -- Kiril Medvedev -- chooses to harm poetry with whatever it is he's doing. Why doesn't he instead blather and complain into regular paragraphs? Why is he breaking up prose into arbitrary lines?
Worse still, this fellow thinks poetry and politics go hand in hand. That's a form of artistic psychopathy. Or merely a spiritual coarseness on his part. Read and be abashed:
"New Emotion: On Kirill Medvedev"
Sorry, Mr. Medvedev. I have to call em like I see em.
Just say, "nyet"! I'll say it: НЕТ!
ReplyDeleteIs there any way I could un-see those poems? Or wash my inner eyes out with soap? Yuck. Time to turn thine attention elsewhere, it seems.
EEEUUUUWWW - NO! I'm going to say this as humbly as I can: this is NOT POETRY! It's blather - prose blather, and not even remotely engaging. As for poetry and politics, everything is political - or, I should say, I think you can mix - but with a subtlety. A POV - but I don't want to discuss this. I just want to forget I just wasted five minutes. I couldn't even finish it, to be honest - i ended up skimming.
ReplyDeleteEEEUUUUWWW - NO! I'm going to say this as humbly as I can: this is NOT POETRY! It's blather - prose blather, and not even remotely engaging. As for poetry and politics, everything is political - or, I should say, I think you can mix - but with a subtlety. A POV - but I don't want to discuss this. I just want to forget I just wasted five minutes. I couldn't even finish it, to be honest - i ended up skimming.
ReplyDeleteCan I slap you from here? I do have long arms. Glad to oblige if needed, but I'd rather slap this Kirill guy (I may have mispelled) whose name is many parts Kill. (Yes, my slap is that amazing.)
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