{"id":3472,"date":"2010-01-25T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2010-01-25T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:48:23","slug":"poetry-is-its-a-stupid-question-thats-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/25\/poetry-is-its-a-stupid-question-thats-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Is?  It&#8217;s a Stupid Question, That&#8217;s What."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4407987&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4407987&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>In my poetic web adventures I went and <a href=\"http:\/\/ronsilliman.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/poetry-is-is-81-minute-video-masterwork.html\">found<\/a> this big long movie by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user1534756\"><em>George Quasha<\/em><\/a> about poets trying to tell everybody what poetry is.  What is poetry?  It&#8217;s not an unanswerable question.  It&#8217;s a stupid question.  But these poets do try to answer it.  It&#8217;s a rather long movie and  I always look for a bad guy in every movie.  Without a bad guy, a movie just makes me hungry and I get up to go to the bathroom a lot.  These poets are all so nice and content looking.  So friendly and comfortable.  I can&#8217;t find out which one is the bad one.  Someone once asked me a really stupid question and I ran away with his camera and threw it in the river.  Why aren&#8217;t any of these poets nasty and depressed?  What makes them so pleasant?  They all sound like their favorite piece of furniture is a podium.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a guy who if you ask him what poetry is will very likely give you a good reason to never ask that question again:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ov-9L0BHOAw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ov-9L0BHOAw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Get what I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my poetic web adventures I went and found this big long movie by George Quasha about poets trying to tell everybody what poetry is. What is poetry? It&#8217;s not an unanswerable question. It&#8217;s a stupid question. But these poets do try to answer it. It&#8217;s a rather long movie and I always look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[202,2501,900,57],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-interview","tag-poetry","tag-poets","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}