Kurt Vonnegut Jr, from Indianapolis, Indiana
novelist
fantasist
autobiographer
polemicist
screenwriter
actor
illustrator
playwright
badass
1922-2007
"So it goes."
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on a lighter note, thank you all for your recent congratulations on the book front!
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this is the only thing on my cpu - don't like it that much any more since my style's changed quite abit (this was during foundation when I was working in textures more than form so the photo isnt really showing the painting)
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in response to all your comments: I'm equally glad to hear that you can appreciate my work. as a so-called "postmodernist" i often get the "it's nice but i don't really understand it" line and that's depressing as all hell. as regards your work, I'd say that it's easy to overestimate the degree to which your work is 'alienated' from the contemporary current; there're more poets than you think working in a similar vein, and I think there will always be a place for your type of work. if anyone's going to be interesting the unpoetical 'masses' in poetry, i think it far more likely to be you than me.
and I definitely agree that poetry will not die til language dies - after all, it's the vital force of language, and coupled with slang, its what forces language to move forward and change and evolve. poetry will never die as long as there are poets!
and yeah, poetry is a kind of abstention, but its also a different form of participation. as long as language is a vital force in civilization, poetry will be a primary participant in life.
I share, in general, your disdain for what you so aptly term 'the done thing' - that's exactly why facing all these questions is so hard when the person you love is so invested in these 'done things'