Can one make an argument for the "greenness" of appropriated poetry?
I suppose it's a bit of a stretch.
-- Post From My iPhone
Oh did I mention that this morning on the way to work I found a VHS copy of my favorite movie: "High Society"? And also "Learning about Letters" by Children's Television Workshop. Apropo of scavenging, I mean. So I was four minutes late to class, having rummaged a little through garbage.
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I actually don't think it's that much of a stretch. The more obvious side "green" awareness for poetry are things like publication and distribution methods, but on the poetics side of things, I think a very good argument could be made that appropriated and found poetry promote a "reading" of our culture's waste. In fact, it seems to me that any poet who is aware of the gross amounts of waste our culture produces daily, that they would almost necessarily incorporate some form of appropriation into their work.
The stretch might be where anyone tries to argue that appropriated poetry is going to have a serious affect on any of our "green" issues. However, its connection to healthy attitudes about cultural wastes seem obvious.
Reason number 501 why Nada is awesome: Sometimes she's late to school because she had to dig through garbage cans. Love it!
Thank you, Stan. It's a matter of "priorities," really.
Plus I always ask myself, "What would Mina Loy do?"
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