Is poetry expendable?
One wonders if “poetry” at the turn of the 21st century isn’t perhaps expendable.
Do we really need it?
Or is “real” poetry to be found, as some people now argue, in hip-hop culture or the poetry slam?
Or perhaps in New Formalist attempts to restore the iambic pentameter or tetrameter to its former position?
–Marjorie Perloff, Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
U of Alabama Press, 2004
Need it for what? I don’t think it exists to fulfill some need, it is a joyous luxury, an unnecessary language arabesque, or maybe everything is poetry, all utterance, a game, a fandango, a childs skip for joy, not needed but a delight, and so forth,
Comment by Paul — April 23, 2008 @ 2:50 am