The best thing that could happen to poetry is to drive it out of the universities with burning pitch forks. Starve the lavish grants. Strangle them all in a barrel of water. Cast them out. The current culture, in which poetry is written for and supported by poets has created a kind of state-sanctioned poetry that resists innovation. When and if poetry is ever made to answer to the broader public, then we may begin to see some great poetry again – the greatness that is the collaboration between audience and artist.
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And this from a poet. Perhaps the most radical suggestion since my own that athletic scholarships be canceled outright, which would force professional sports to create their own minor leagues and stop using the universities as such.
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I think there is no food for thought. But if you don't wants you to diet something.Than you should think what to eat and what should not ear?
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