tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post7168207451748281225..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: Hatred of PoetryJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-77414320055025995122016-07-07T10:45:06.969-05:002016-07-07T10:45:06.969-05:00I completely forgot I used that in my Rossetti cha...I completely forgot I used that in my Rossetti chapter. The cuisine and pornography bit comes from Kant, of course. Kant has to have a way of detaching aesthetic perception from appetites. So if you see a still life painting, your reaction shouldn't be hunger for the peach in the picture. The fear of beauty is such that people on left and right look askance at it. The catchy pop song has to Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-9133116462382440962016-07-07T10:19:37.666-05:002016-07-07T10:19:37.666-05:00Thanks for that Adorno reference. (When I googled ...Thanks for that Adorno reference. (When I googled it, I found your chapter on Ana Rossetti.) I'll now have to think about the idea of art "emancipated from cuisine and pornography." And its reversal: poems that help us to enjoy food and sex. Simple pleasures.<br /><br />I guess Lerner's "hatred" can still, on this view, be occasioned by a poem's failure to help us Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-33049186914760298392016-07-06T08:13:37.268-05:002016-07-06T08:13:37.268-05:00Pound is close to Adorno, when he says "In a ...Pound is close to Adorno, when he says "In a false world all hedone is false." I reject both arguments because I think poetry actually to the real world, not to some utopia where it could be perfectly enjoyed. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-2206068847976960222016-07-06T03:31:51.594-05:002016-07-06T03:31:51.594-05:00The Paris Review interview is interesting. He sugg...The <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/06/30/the-hatred-of-poetry-an-interview-with-ben-lerner/" rel="nofollow">Paris Review interview</a> is interesting. He suggests that our disappointment with poetry comes from wanting "a poem to do something that only a revolution could do". A bit further on, the interviewer mentions a recent piece in the Economist that, the Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com