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Arts Deliberate Meaningfull Poets Should Widen

Posted by on April 23 at 16:47 PM

From my inbox—unedited—in response to this week’s Nightstand.

after reading neighboring piece nichols line “whose work is best appreciated at home, alone, book in hand, silently”, [ ever the faithfull cynic, [ i spell all those with 2 l’s,]
[and yet by definition, part hopefull,]
it connected me to the perpetuation of the “problem” by you
with headers like “kaminsky beats beckman”
and the meritorious negative connotation of “competition”
to a realm where it should not enter,
leaving me all but convinced the natural gulf between word percussionists,
[ rap, stage poets et cetera,] and deliberate meaningfull poets should widen,
allowing at least a whit chance of retarding the extinction of this art
that deserves to be thought about, considered,
and the only path that distuinguishes it from candy,
however infectious its beat or dramatic its reading…
yes, i revel in the essence of the “right voice” for the right work,
[ eliot, pound, lowell speaking theirs with their unique vocal stamp,]
but that’s not what the gravamen of this is about…
i’ll leave in between the lines for you…
peace,
transcenderarts…

Hmm.