Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not merely "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; links to political commentary (particularly on conflicts in the Middle East); youtubed performances of music, demos, and other audio-video nuggets dealing with peaceful change, dissent and resistance.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Another Take on the Guantanamo Poems/Dan Chiasson's review
In Dan Chiasson's review of Poems from Guantanamo, he tries to claim a space for reading such poetry--"You don’t read this book for pleasure; you read it for evidence"--even if he finds the work lacking in such evidence: "But the bulk of these poems are so vague, their claims so conventional, that they might have been written at any point in history by anyone suffering anything."
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