An Irrelevant World

“Poetry today huddles in its prescribed little ghettos—the sentimentalism of greeting cards and cupboard poetry, the small clutch of arcane poetry journals with circulations of thirteen, self-absorbed adolescents scribbling pages of navel-gazing free verse, and nationally-ignored poet laureates. That about covers the world of poetry.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 185

Content Cluster Muster [11-17-22]

Christian Nationalism Gets the Sweater Vest Treatment: He Does Not Appear to Have Learned the Right Life Lessons: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Watching a Bit of Game Film: Good Idea: An AI Picture I Generated Online: Jokes I Like to Tell: How can you readily ascertain the number of cows in …

Heckling the Center from the Circumference

“The dishonesty of the whole endeavor is what causes conservative believers to adopt our classic and traditional tone—that of shrill—which we have used for so long it has almost become an art form among us. We have been cordoned off, and our response is to dance impatiently in place while heckling unbelief from our assigned place on the periphery.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 180