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The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,โ he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
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And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
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Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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๐จPierre-Auguste Renoir
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29 Jan 2025
To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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The Futurists and Dadaists, by contrast,
Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
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But then the "damned flamboyant" persona
Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
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only to learn, much to their Disappointment, how poorly Roman masks Fit onto Hanoverian faces;
Those who could afford to buy their journals Learned just how quickly an empty stomach Curdles Panegyric into Philippic.
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Thereby rendering Olson's claims about the EAR and the BREATH and the SYLLABLE and the LINE in his essay " Projective Verse"
Doubly anachronistic.
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โthe HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE
the HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINEโ
poetryfoundation.org/articleโฆ
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As the privatized public learns to sing With its eyes alone, moving them across The printed page in silence. Yes "readings" Are still with us, but shouldn't we instead Call them "recitals"?
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On the horizon: Rebirth. Yet more than a century later, When Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Becomes the first book of literature Printed in Italy, the reading public Is still, by definition, in swaddling clothes.#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
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One day in 1336, Petrarch Climbs Mont Ventoux with a tiny volume Of Confessiones Augustini34 To enjoy the view, get in a daydream Or two about Laura. issuu.com/graficaldc/docs/yoโฆ
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Although Bertran concedes the punishment
Thr Florentinr dreamt up for him is just
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Context Collapse by @_ryanruby_ getting the NYT Book Review Editorโs Choice treatment. You love to see it.
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Book Review: โContext Collapseโ by Ryan Ruby
#poetry #books #reviews #RyanRuby #history #eloquentguide #formsandstyles #tensionbetweenpopulismanderudition
telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiโฆ
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Oh and yes, Flannery! Her childhood home is right around the corner from me. A museum now. Lovely!
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a stream of names ....
Ron Rash
Bennett Sims
@AmericanGwyn
@AndrewPorter01
@DodddWhite
DeWitt
Moshfegh
J. McManus
Williams
Ha Jin
Doerr
Oates
Joyce
Kafka
Hawthorne
Gogol
Bierce
James
Ballard
Borges
Johnson
O'Connor
Woolf
Hemingway
Faulkner
i wish @RyanRuby and a collection
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