Like Brad Delong's site, but with more liberal use of the F-word and less about the New York Times.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Youtube of Poetry
Combining, as it does, a healthy disrespect for the law relating to copyright, with some of the most horrifyingly asinine comments you will read today.
Simple explanation really - like most people they don't read poems as poems, but as pieces of difficult (i.e. long) journalism. The key sentence is always at the head of the piece and the rest is skippable supporting stuff - quotes, evidence, context, reflection.
douglas clark, who is not anonymous but hasn't a clue about any of that stuff. Anyway:
Dear Daniel,
Off topic.
I seem to recall that you had a pretty good grip on the UK's macroecomic position. Could you point me to your best writing on the subject so's I can pinch it?
Jonathan Swift was lucky in that he basically had no parishioners, just a regular paycheck ("a living" as they marketed it).
ReplyDeleteSimple explanation really - like most people they don't read poems as poems, but as pieces of difficult (i.e. long) journalism. The key sentence is always at the head of the piece and the rest is skippable supporting stuff - quotes, evidence, context, reflection.
ReplyDeletedouglas clark, who is not anonymous but hasn't a clue about any of that stuff. Anyway:
ReplyDeleteDear Daniel,
Off topic.
I seem to recall that you had a pretty good grip on the UK's macroecomic position. Could you point me to your best writing on the subject so's I can pinch it?