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Poetry of all the forms of literature i think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. it twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things i think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

-Rita Dove

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Poetry Of All The Forms Of Literature

Rita Dove

Poetry of all the forms of literature i think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. it twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things i think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

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The dominant theory coming out of hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. the remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. it is better to write about other people's poetry.

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. the whole life of us writers, the whole product i guess i mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. it's all the same poem. it doesn't belong to any one writer - it's god's poem perhaps. or god's people's poem.

But carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) babies are illogical. 2) nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) illogical persons are despised. therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. and: 1) no interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) no modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) all of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) no affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

For poetry is, i believe, always an act of the spirit. the poem teaches us something while we make it. the poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. more profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

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