{"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’s a Stupid Question, That’s What."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my poetic web adventures I went and found<\/a> this big long movie by George Quasha<\/em><\/a> about poets trying to tell everybody what poetry is. What is poetry? It’s not an unanswerable question. It’s a stupid question. But these poets do try to answer it. It’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’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’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

Here’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

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Get what I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s not an unanswerable question. It’s a stupid question. But these poets do try to answer it. It’s a rather long movie and I always look for […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t