Retention (Auden)
Victorious over
the foreign tyrant,
the patriots retained
his emergency
police regulations
devised to suppress them.W.H. Auden, Marginalia
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Most recent iterations of the attack on poetry draw rap into the discussion—well, if rappers attract huge audiences with their hard-hitting hard-rhymed verses, why can’t you? This comparison represents a category error, pure and simple. Rap incorporates poetry into a hybrid art form that includes music, fashion, stylized delivery, and stage spectacle. To contrast rap’s popularity with page poetry is meaningless.
—Amit Majmudar
—Amit Majmudar
Sunday, October 28, 2007
