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The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
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Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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The best-known modernist poets could access Private incomes #Ruby25
William Carlos Williams- doctor
Eliot- banker;
Stevens -vp of insurance co
Moore- part-time librarian
Crane worked for father's candy factory
Pound- lived by his pen
Stein had inherited wealth
The Futurists and Dadaists, by contrast,
Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
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Reading An Act of Sharing with 'Paper Pills' @ReemK10 begins:
Ryan Ruby’s book of poetics
'Context Collapse'
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A later poetwho admired neither Petrarch nor Whitman nevertheless had To concede that the latter "broke the new wood" That had fallen to him to carve.HenceforthHe vowshis fingers pounding out this pact On the keys of his newwritingmachine, Every Canto will be unsingable #Ruby25
But then the "damned flamboyant" persona
Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
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Poems, suppressed:a 300-franc fine Levied on author & publisher alike. Bankrupt & forced to flee their creditors,
They arrived, eventually, in Belgium, Where the former continued to erase Himself with hashish, wine, & opium- And the indignities of writing for cash.
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Jacques Aupick's splenetic stepson rebelled #Ruby25
Aupick decided to save his poet stepson from “the sewers of Paris” by sending him on a voyage to “the Indies- the hapless South Sea ferry captain responsible for Baudelaire’s passage to India sent a despairing letter to Aupick:
only to learn, much to their Disappointment, how poorly Roman masks Fit onto Hanoverian faces;
Those who could afford to buy their journals Learned just how quickly an empty stomach Curdles Panegyric into Philippic.
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It was not until the 18th century, beginning in England with the Statute of Anne, that the law vested some ownership of printed books in the persons who had actually written them. Whereas before, when sales consisted of a " one-and-done"
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Scattered idiosyncratically across two- page spreads, the poem incorporates the given of the page (absence) into its structure of meaning (presence), so that the visual component is no less important than the aural component of the poem...
Stonecipher
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As the privatized public learns to sing With its eyes alone, moving them across The printed page in silence. Yes "readings" Are still with us, but shouldn't we instead Call them "recitals"?
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On the horizon: Rebirth. Yet more than a century later, When Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Becomes the first book of literature Printed in Italy, the reading public Is still, by definition, in swaddling clothes.#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
One day in 1336, Petrarch Climbs Mont Ventoux with a tiny volume Of Confessiones Augustini34 To enjoy the view, get in a daydream Or two about Laura. https://t.co/kmfIlfJiMa
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