[lit-ideas] Re: A NOTE TO BRIAN
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:59:53 -0400
Personally, I think your poetry is pretty terrific, as is Eric's and David
Ritche's. I marvel that the people on this list are so talented. It
strikes me that whoever wrote to you offlist complaining about your poetry
fnds it easier to criticize than to let others read his work I would take
an educated guess and say that that person may very well be envious, hence
the need to cut someone down to size.
Andy Amago
> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: LIT-IDEAS <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/17/2005 2:34:30 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] A NOTE TO BRIAN
>
> Dear Brian,
>
> I was not offended by your "Absolute terrible." In fact, I laughed when
I
> read it. As poetry, I thought it was pretty terrible too, but it was
funny.
>
> "Inflexible morality of the miserable:
> at least that if no more, ought through their creeds.
> The ligatures of all beliefs I am here to untie."
>
> That's the best parody of Joyce since... well, hell, since Joyce.
Obviously
> I care more about funny than poetry. Eric is much more the serious poet.
I
> admire him for it and most of his writings that I've seen I admire a lot.
> But he's serious about writing. I'm a clown about it and serious about
> being a clown. So I like it when I think I've irritated someone enough
with
> my "poetry" that they feel compelled to comment. That's one of the
things
> poetry should do, stir us into action, even if that's only laughing or
maybe
> just smiling, or maybe just rolling one's eyes. My favorite quote from
> McLuhan is "Art is anything you can get away with." Evidently you don't
> find much art in my poetry, but as long as it annoys you enough that you
> feel compelled to comment on it, then I feel I've gotten away with
something
> and ergo, it's ART.
>
> Someone offlist recently complained that one of my Sunday Poems was
"lazy."
> Well, yes. I don't get paid for this crap, you know.
>
> Keep sending in those cards and letters folks. Even Stan can.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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