Carol Ann Duffy v Mills & Boone

[rayheinrich]

While there are many fine 'academic' poets and I absolutely hate
our current anti-intellectual culture; this guy sucks purple
donkey-dicks. It's people like him who give academic's a bad name.

I happen to like Duffy's poetry and usually support attempts at
'democratization' even though they're highly susceptible to
'pop music syndrome' which sucks a donkey-dick of a different color.
('Mauvelous' maroon?)

I especially love 'the poem is a form of texting' even though the
phrase is calculated to provoke for publicity's sake. (Of course,
I'm intrinsically biased since the stuff I write has a lot in common
with 'texting'.)

A poem of Duffy's:


                  Talent

   This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
   a man, inching across it in the space
   between our thoughts. He holds our breath.
   
   There is no word net.
   
   You want him to fall, don't you?
   I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
   The word applause is written all over him.

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