03-24-2022, 09:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2022, 09:53 AM by RiverNotch.)
gosh, instagram
yeah, apparently it's easier to reach an audience in instagram or twitter, but that's more of what folks seem to look for in general -- an audience, rather than development. i don't intend to get instagram or twitter anytime soon, though, so i'm stuck here xD
mainly what busker said. although the big bookstores here don't really have poetry sections, and in general i see people read prose way more than they do poetry. i'm kinda divided on what this means: the romantic in me continues to find that the millennia-old art of poetry is dying, but the optimist, who is the me that's more often *me* anyway, looks at genius.com and thinks that poetry now is mostly just pop. not that genius is a very good site, but it's not unusual for the majority of critics and poets in their respective ages to be terrible.
it's probably both, leaning more towards the latter. my hypothesis is poetry lost a good chunk of itself with the advent of the novel -- few people, myself included, seem to have to *push* through epic poetry when reading them, as it's a genre whose exemplars we're no longer made to read in their entirety at ages younger than college. the best a solid narrative pop album tends to approach is a verse novel, with a favourite example of mine, and one that i'm sure folks here have already appreciated, is Kae Tempest's "Everybody Down".
yeah, apparently it's easier to reach an audience in instagram or twitter, but that's more of what folks seem to look for in general -- an audience, rather than development. i don't intend to get instagram or twitter anytime soon, though, so i'm stuck here xD
mainly what busker said. although the big bookstores here don't really have poetry sections, and in general i see people read prose way more than they do poetry. i'm kinda divided on what this means: the romantic in me continues to find that the millennia-old art of poetry is dying, but the optimist, who is the me that's more often *me* anyway, looks at genius.com and thinks that poetry now is mostly just pop. not that genius is a very good site, but it's not unusual for the majority of critics and poets in their respective ages to be terrible.
it's probably both, leaning more towards the latter. my hypothesis is poetry lost a good chunk of itself with the advent of the novel -- few people, myself included, seem to have to *push* through epic poetry when reading them, as it's a genre whose exemplars we're no longer made to read in their entirety at ages younger than college. the best a solid narrative pop album tends to approach is a verse novel, with a favourite example of mine, and one that i'm sure folks here have already appreciated, is Kae Tempest's "Everybody Down".