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"'Poet' must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. In other words: not a noun for a passport." -- Louise Glück Your statement is too

"'Poet' must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. In other words: not a noun for a passport." -- Louise Glück Your statement is too short to read much into, but I'm amused at the negative response given its similarity to Glück's. For anyone who doesn't know, Glück is a former US Poet Laureate and won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

astrange 4y ago
There was also a Twitter incident where a poetry magazine editor got cancelled and lost their job for saying that most people don't read poetry. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/barren-poetry-magazine-fires-editor-tweet/ https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/barren-poetry-magazine-fire...
- seoaeu 4y ago
  > I want to be very explicit that I didn't get 'cancelled'. Everyone made a series of decisions and those decisions have consequences. That's it. It is merely consequential.
  - astrange 4y ago
    I suppose it’s in the eye of the beholder, but that seems like a situation where they’d want to be careful not to hurt their industry relationships, or end up right-wing-coded by becoming “cancelled”.
- FreakLegion 4y ago
  > I wish poets understood that the general population has no interest in what we do, so when we speak we are speaking only to each other. I think to some extent the second part is responsible for the first: Poetry took a hard turn with Modernism and has become increasingly academic and bound up with academia ever since*. It's barely meant for other people anymore, and when it is, academics are often dismissive or outright hostile. Strange that anyone could disagree with Dani Rose's comment, let alone attack her over it. * I'm a lapsed academic and my field was Modernism. Love the stuff, but am under no illusions about the readership of, say, Ezra Pound.

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"'Poet' must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. In other words: not a noun for a passport." -- Louise Glück Your statement is too

by FreakLegion 4y ago

astrange 4y ago
There was also a Twitter incident where a poetry magazine editor got cancelled and lost their job for saying that most people don't read poetry. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/barren-poetry-magazine-fires-editor-tweet/ https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/barren-poetry-magazine-fire...
- seoaeu 4y ago
  > I want to be very explicit that I didn't get 'cancelled'. Everyone made a series of decisions and those decisions have consequences. That's it. It is merely consequential.
  - astrange 4y ago
    I suppose it’s in the eye of the beholder, but that seems like a situation where they’d want to be careful not to hurt their industry relationships, or end up right-wing-coded by becoming “cancelled”.
- FreakLegion 4y ago
  > I wish poets understood that the general population has no interest in what we do, so when we speak we are speaking only to each other. I think to some extent the second part is responsible for the first: Poetry took a hard turn with Modernism and has become increasingly academic and bound up with academia ever since*. It's barely meant for other people anymore, and when it is, academics are often dismissive or outright hostile. Strange that anyone could disagree with Dani Rose's comment, let alone attack her over it. * I'm a lapsed academic and my field was Modernism. Love the stuff, but am under no illusions about the readership of, say, Ezra Pound.