POETRY MANIFESTO – June 2006
by Mark Rendina
Source: greatestlivingpoets.com
“That there is poetry is the only evidence that man truly exists”
The Latin American poet quoted above was wise beyond his years. He had the luxury of participating in a culture that still prized the power of the written word as incantation. A machine can be programmed to make everything a man can make—airplanes, pictures, prose, music—but only one craft still requires
exclusively the active participation of a human: poetry. Only a human can create and judge great poetry. Yet no poet currently living can make a living from his labour. This is because modern poetry has been written as prose and the public can not name a poet now living. The public does not buy poetry books. They do
not expect to be pleased when they see a book of modern poetry in the shops.
And they are right. What is wrong with American poetry.? We live in a land that hates poets ?
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