Thursday, March 10, 2005

 

The latest kerfuffle: this article on poet Ammiel Alcalay. There's a rising tide of blog posts, letters-to-the-editor, etc. coming out of this one, arguing that the article is nothing more than a crass call for censorship, is hyperbolically one-sided, fails to appreciate political and poetical complexity, etc., etc. Perhaps. But its main fault in my view is that . . . it's boring. I mean, the mindblowing revelation that this author feels the need to gift the world with is: "poets sometimes have unpopular, and to some people's minds, perverse, political views." Egad! You don't say! You know what else? The world is round.

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