http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/burning-the-east-west-shores/ Whatever it is, we're against it Wed, 16 May 2012 16:21:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/burning-the-east-west-shores/#comment-20467 Mikael Covey Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:37:01 +0000 http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/burning-the-east-west-shores/#comment-20467 I think I understand what Tony, Rob, and Pablo, are saying here. And it’s all good. Like Woodard, I always urge people to focus on social relevance - war, poverty, greed, and the effect that has on children. And like O’Neill, I want art to be sublimely overwhelming, the lead dog in the human race. But as Pablo points out - art is whatever the artist wants it to be. And no one can tell the artist what to do. Thus it is a good thing, an essential thing, that each of us has a different definition of the poet’s role. I think I understand what Tony, Rob, and Pablo, are saying here. And it’s all good. Like Woodard, I always urge people to focus on social relevance - war, poverty, greed, and the effect that has on children. And like O’Neill, I want art to be sublimely overwhelming, the lead dog in the human race. But as Pablo points out - art is whatever the artist wants it to be. And no one can tell the artist what to do. Thus it is a good thing, an essential thing, that each of us has a different definition of the poet’s role.

]]> http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/burning-the-east-west-shores/#comment-20420 Pablo Sat, 31 May 2008 12:08:30 +0000 http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/burning-the-east-west-shores/#comment-20420 Sorry, but that's a load of posturing self-aggrandising bullshit. If you start talking about what a poet's role is, and start mouthing off sixth-form platitudes about exploding incendiary devices blah blah blah, all you do is diminish poetry and restrict the possibilities of poetry. What if a poet doesn't want to do that? What if a great poem is written that doesn't conform to that? You become a philistine because you don't recognise it. It's just another form of narrow mindedness. Sorry, but that’s a load of posturing self-aggrandising bullshit. If you start talking about what a poet’s role is, and start mouthing off sixth-form platitudes about exploding incendiary devices blah blah blah, all you do is diminish poetry and restrict the possibilities of poetry. What if a poet doesn’t want to do that? What if a great poem is written that doesn’t conform to that? You become a philistine because you don’t recognise it. It’s just another form of narrow mindedness.

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