July 26, 2007
One could abandon writing…
“One could abandon writing
for the slow burning signals
of the great, to be, instead
their ideal reader, ruminative,
Voracious, making the love of masterpieces
superior to attempting
to repeat or outdo them,
and be the greatest reader in the world.”
- from Derek Walcott’s “Volcano”
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One of the reasons I publish online!
– L. Lee Lowe
on “Would He Do it Again?”
Last year Derrick Brown did living room readings. I don’t think anyone there had ever read his poetry; I had barely been introduced a few days before. http://vimeo.com/6013960
Compared to any staged, stacked or emceed poetry reading, well, it was kind of like learning you hadn’t ever had good sex.
Granted, he’s a more engaging poet than many, and he reads poems that should be read aloud, like they should sound. I still think that a lot of the intimacy would have been lost in any a more austere setting.
As a listener, it had a profound and searing impact; if I could speak for the non-poetry-reading kind, I’d say they could not help but connect with this living poetry that was funny and sad and sweet and took you somewhere.
– Emily
on “Would He Do it Again?”
Awesome! I always loved Sontag’s ‘Notes On Camp’. Lucid and concise.
http://e6n1.blogspot.com/
– Eeleen Lee
on “Not an Intellectual, but a Writer, a Reader, and a Dreamer”
