ON BEING ASKED ONCE MORE WHAT A POEM IS
2010; Wiley; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tyr.2010.0101
ISSN1467-9736
Autores Tópico(s)Diversity and Impact of Dance
Resumo7 1 R O N B E I N G A S K E D O N C E M O R E W H A T A P O E M I S D A V I D W A G O N E R Instead of another song and dance from the book – Memorable speech or Statements made on the way to the grave or Whatever (when I think of it) makes me cut myself shaving or The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected and so on – this time, this time not a set speech or a painful minimumally muttered evasion with a dying fall or a cutting edge. Let’s try a more romantic movement, the song and dance themselves, almost in person, for this young man sprawled in the front row, a hip-hop logo glued to his notebook. Why do you listen to songs? What is a song? Why don’t you sing one for us? If you can’t sing, recite the words of one. If you can’t remember the words, make up your own. If they don’t sound right without music, make up some music. If you don’t know how, then play somebody else’s. If you can’t play, then dance. Are you a dancer? Has anyone seen you dancing lately? Why are you doing it? Were you listening to singers while you were dancing? Were they singing words? Were you humming some of those words to yourself or to a partner opposite you or maybe smack up against you who was listening and maybe half believing some of them? Well, you (who think you can’t sing 7 2 Y or play or dance or remember the right words), go ask poets to tell you what you’re doing is acting out what they call making a poem. ...
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