Comments on: My letter to WUKY and other meanderings http://sherrychandler.com/2005/08/16/my-letter-to-wuky-and-other-meanderings/ "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dta http://sherrychandler.com/2005/08/16/my-letter-to-wuky-and-other-meanderings/comment-page-1/#comment-7133 dta Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:41:42 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=370#comment-7133 I like to think Plato knew his republic would not work, and that perhaps he wished for his dialouges to spark the human mind to reason why one can not direct the heart... i agree with everything you said above; now how are the poets of today to get the human mind to listen? ...there is some(poerty) that has touched hearts and found frames whilst others direct generations and lay foundations for future civilizations; it is the poet who gives you your language and to refuse him would leave all of life silent. I like to think Plato knew his republic would not work, and that perhaps he wished for his dialouges to spark the human mind to reason why one can not direct the heart… i agree with everything you said above; now how are the poets of today to get the human mind to listen?

…there is some(poerty) that has touched hearts and found frames
whilst others direct generations and lay foundations for future civilizations; it is the poet who gives you your language and to refuse him would leave all of life silent.

]]> By: Jason http://sherrychandler.com/2005/08/16/my-letter-to-wuky-and-other-meanderings/comment-page-1/#comment-7129 Jason Sun, 21 Aug 2005 05:55:45 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=370#comment-7129 Sherry, In some discussions I had about WUKY's censorship I brought up the "Parental Advisory" labels and pointed out that if the poem by Amber Coverdale Sumrall were recorded on a CD it would be labeled and not be sold at many stores. I see such a clear connection, but I don't think everyone does. Oh well, hopefully MP3's will make that irrelevant. And maybe there's a lesson in that: getting it out there is what its all about and the subvervision is in the distribution as well as content. By the way, tomorrow I start classes in the MFA program at <a href="http://www.naropa.edu/writingandpoetics/index.html" rel="nofollow">The Jack Kerouac School</a> which is also home to the <a href="http://library.naropa.edu/" rel="nofollow">Allen Ginsberg Library</a>. Sherry,

In some discussions I had about WUKY’s censorship I brought up the “Parental Advisory” labels and pointed out that if the poem by Amber Coverdale Sumrall were recorded on a CD it would be labeled and not be sold at many stores. I see such a clear connection, but I don’t think everyone does. Oh well, hopefully MP3’s will make that irrelevant.

And maybe there’s a lesson in that: getting it out there is what its all about and the subvervision is in the distribution as well as content.

By the way, tomorrow I start classes in the MFA program at The Jack Kerouac School which is also home to the Allen Ginsberg Library.

]]> By: Charles M. Whitt http://sherrychandler.com/2005/08/16/my-letter-to-wuky-and-other-meanderings/comment-page-1/#comment-7119 Charles M. Whitt Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:53:59 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=370#comment-7119 You have a way of rooting out the most relevant facts (no matter how obscure) on the subjects you chose for blogdom. i.e. the comment for which you couldn?t remember the source. Well, I know it wasn?t me, but it could have been. I have thought the very same thing for a long time, that is, that not just poetry is trivialized, but an entire way of life has been nearly trivialized out of existence. I find it remarkable, and truly unbelievable that they have found a way to convince a majority that we have been shamefully wrong for years. And that is what has happened. No minority can dictate to a majority unless the majority lets them. And why do we let them? We let them because we have been weak. Years of pounding on our beliefs, and the right political climate, have stripped away our confidence, and replaced it with a kind of perverted fear that works just like ropes around our necks leading us wherever they want to take us. In normal times everyone would know without thinking that if one must tear down someone else to advance oneself success can only be temporary. The censorship we are seeing is becoming as pervasive as freedom once was. But don?t question yourself. You are doing your part. And as poets we certainly don?t have to travel abroad to find ruin enough to write about anymore. In a poem about eighties politics I wrote: ??our dreams didn?t change, they just became irrelevant.? I could have said, ?Trivialized.? Indeed, where is our Ginsberg? Where is our poet whose persona is to large to be trivialized, and too strong to be lost to madness? And for that matter, where is our Ferlinghetti? Charlie Whitt You have a way of rooting out the most relevant facts (no matter how obscure) on the subjects you chose for blogdom. i.e. the comment for which you couldn?t remember the source. Well, I know it wasn?t me, but it could have been. I have thought the very same thing for a long time, that is, that not just poetry is trivialized, but an entire way of life has been nearly trivialized out of existence. I find it remarkable, and truly unbelievable that they have found a way to convince a majority that we have been shamefully wrong for years. And that is what has happened. No minority can dictate to a majority unless the majority lets them.
And why do we let them? We let them because we have been weak. Years of pounding on our beliefs, and the right political climate, have stripped away our confidence, and replaced it with a kind of perverted fear that works just like ropes around our necks leading us wherever they want to take us. In normal times everyone would know without thinking that if one must tear down someone else to advance oneself success can only be temporary.
The censorship we are seeing is becoming as pervasive as freedom once was. But don?t question yourself. You are doing your part. And as poets we certainly don?t have to travel abroad to find ruin enough to write about anymore. In a poem about eighties politics I wrote: ??our dreams didn?t change, they just became irrelevant.? I could have said, ?Trivialized.?
Indeed, where is our Ginsberg? Where is our poet whose persona is to large to be trivialized, and too strong to be lost to madness? And for that matter, where is our Ferlinghetti?
Charlie Whitt

]]> By: havecoffeewillwrite.com » WHERE IS OUR GINSBURG, INDEED… http://sherrychandler.com/2005/08/16/my-letter-to-wuky-and-other-meanderings/comment-page-1/#comment-7118 havecoffeewillwrite.com » WHERE IS OUR GINSBURG, INDEED… Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:19:53 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=370#comment-7118 [...] silenced by opposition and suppression. Rather they are given all freedom and trivialized. Read the rest. Filed under: Espresso Shot Poetry — Jeff Hess @ 0649 [...] [...] silenced by opposition and suppression. Rather they are given all freedom and trivialized. Read the rest. Filed under: Espresso Shot Poetry — Jeff Hess @ 0649 [...]

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