What do you think of this poets theory of antipoetry?

Question

What do you think of this poets theory of antipoetry
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the book is called "the aesethetics of anti-poetry manifesto"

Answer 1

Well, quite rebellious and silly.

If he/she is talking about some specific kind of poetry, he/she should have specified. If not, then some sentences are just plainly false:

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Hitherto poetry has been the monopoly of a politically correct elite bourgeoise.

The standpoint of the old poetry is rules

Hitherto poets have sort the approbation of the establishment

Hitherto poetry has been the toy of the literary sophisticated

The appreciators of poetry cannot appreciate Anti-poetry, since they are in the straight jacket of correct English.

the bourgeoise poetry has been harmonious and easy on the mind.

prose is unordered and poetry ordered in some manner.
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"Poetry" is so vast an idea, that it includes plenty more than that. I haven't read it all, but the way he/she defines antipoetry,


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poets have only used language to interpret the world the point of Anti-poetry is to change language thus the world.

Hitherto poets have sort the approbation of the establishment. Anti-poets seek its reprobation;
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he/she seems just to be talking about some modern kind of poetry. There's no "anti" to this, not to mention that these ideas are not even revolutionary, any of them has been tried by some more or less modern poet. Just to take the surrealists and the dadaists as an example.

...Not to mention the the whole bunch of typos in the text. Or were they part of the search for reprobation?

Answer 2

poetry is poetry and anti poetry would not produce something ie if it does then it is poetry.

this author specialises in writing books bagging theories and being deliberately cynical. such things are good to stimulate thought but are the extreme view. extremeists make us think, agree with them or not and that can only be a good thing.

many old poets were very inflamatory. the context of the time the verse was written must be considered.