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The American lit trash princesses have finally turned on each other
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quote:In other words, this is the poetry of capitalism. This is a dope burn
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Jan 26, 2018 16:24
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I cannot tell if this is a parody or real what's a gpa
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Jan 26, 2018 17:28
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it struck me as 'mytwistedmind.wordpress.com, the book' plus ms paint drawings
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Jan 26, 2018 17:47
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Shibawanko posted:what's a gpa As far as I can tell, a numeric score assigned to Americans by their education system, that both measures and determines their worth to society and their life trajectory. High GPA, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Low GPA, sleazy stripper. Relevant quote: quote:The study, based on high-school transcript data and interviews of more than 10,000 students, found that, for men, a one-point increase in GPA translated to an 11.85-percent increase in annual earnings, compared to a 13.77 percent annual earnings increase for women
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Jan 26, 2018 18:20
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it is deeply funny to me that you read what im assuming was an entire book of rupi kaur's instagram posts, derp
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Jan 26, 2018 18:29
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I am realizing I was very lucky to be able to assume that by "rupi" he meant "Rumi"
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Jan 26, 2018 18:31
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GPA is a 4 point score used in colleges to determine grades 4.0 a 3.5 a- 3.0 b Etc.
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Jan 26, 2018 18:31
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rumi kaur, famous sufi instagram poet
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Jan 26, 2018 18:36
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it is deeply funny to me that you read what im assuming was an entire book of rupi kaur's instagram posts, derp i did get about a third the way through before giving up. at each page turn i questioned my self further. am i crazy, or is the world crazy? i thought. and the few times that i got one that was sort of good, or made me think or feel a little bit, there would be a ridiculous drawing on the next page that undercut the writing by slapping me in the face with its surface level meaning. except, i guess, i was just imagining any meaning beyond the surface. so, glad to hear she's lovely and im not crazy.
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Jan 26, 2018 18:40
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drat we missed a chance to mindfuck derp
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Jan 26, 2018 18:59
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derp posted:I would like poetry recommends for a noob. I got rupi Kaur milk and honey and idgi at all. So not whatever kind of poetry that is. chernobyl kinsman posted:rumi kaur, famous sufi instagram poet For reals, I didn't realize "Rupi Kaur" was a real person and I just thought they meant Rumi and maybe Kaur was a last name or a title or something I wasn't familiar with, I've barely read Rumi and what little I've read didn't grab me so I thought "Ok, maybe the Rubaiyat would be a better starting place" quote:“For me, poetry is like holding up a mirror and seeing myself,” Rupi Kaur, the best-selling Instapoet of all time, has said. In other words, this is the poetry of capitalism. quote:Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
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Jan 26, 2018 19:53
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“For me, poetry is like holding up a mirror and seeing myself,” lol or, like posting a selfie and looking at it?
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Jan 26, 2018 20:00
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Mel Mudkiper posted:GPA is a 4 point score used in colleges to determine grades How poetic... The best poetry is by Brecht imo: quote:Step foward: we hear
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Jan 26, 2018 21:21
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My mom (God bless her) bought me a Rupi Kaur book of poems for Christmas because some girl at chapters said it was good and she knows I like poetry. I read like 3 poems and it is loving garbage, yes. For good poetry, I am reading Danez Smith, who is a black queer poet from Minneapolis. It's good poo poo: Dinosaurs in the Hood posted:Let’s make a movie called Dinosaurs in the Hood.
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Jan 26, 2018 21:58
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thehoodie posted:My mom (God bless her) bought me a Rupi Kaur book of poems for Christmas because some girl at chapters said it was good and she knows I like poetry. I read like 3 poems and it is loving garbage, yes. I think you're mistaken, that is a tumblr post with random line breaks.
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Jan 26, 2018 22:27
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The poets have muddied all the little fountains. Yet do not my strong eyes know you, far house?
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Jan 26, 2018 22:30
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thehoodie posted:For good poetry, I am reading Danez Smith, who is a black queer poet from Minneapolis. It's good poo poo: This is incredibly repulsive
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Jan 26, 2018 22:47
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thehoodie posted:My mom (God bless her) bought me a Rupi Kaur book of poems for Christmas because some girl at chapters said it was good and she knows I like poetry. I read like 3 poems and it is loving garbage, yes. 
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Jan 26, 2018 22:48
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What is wrong with you people
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Jan 26, 2018 22:51
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thehoodie posted:For good poetry, I am reading Danez Smith, who is a black queer poet from Minneapolis. It's good poo poo: this sucks dude
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Jan 26, 2018 22:51
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that dinosaur example of poetry is what has always confused me about what poetry actually is. I remember i had a creative writing class in like, 10th grade and i couldn't get my teacher to explain to me what makes something a poem. so for a poem i had to write for an assignment, i just wrote out a paragraph about how i didn't understand what poetry was, spaced it out to have the shape of a poem, and turned it in and got full credit for it. I was kind of hoping he would explain to me why it wasn't poetry but i guess it was. so since then i've always had a vague understand of of poetry as being 'prose with weird line breaks'
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Jan 26, 2018 23:13
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It seems alright to me. Inoffensive, juvenile, kinda blog-y, but at the same time it's got a solid structure and some funny imagery that comes to a coherent point.
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Jan 26, 2018 23:14
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derp posted:that dinosaur example of poetry is what has always confused me about what poetry actually is. I remember i had a creative writing class in like, 10th grade and i couldn't get my teacher to explain to me what makes something a poem. so for a poem i had to write for an assignment, i just wrote out a paragraph about how i didn't understand what poetry was, spaced it out to have the shape of a poem, and turned it in and got full credit for it. I was kind of hoping he would explain to me why it wasn't poetry but i guess it was. Prose walks like this Poetry walks like this
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Jan 26, 2018 23:16
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I'm horribly tone deaf + my spoken English is awful, but, it looks like it sounds good, too, doesn't it? At least, it's made of parts that sound good
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Jan 26, 2018 23:20
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This profile of Rupi Kaur is incredible for how bad it makes her look purely by accurately quoting her and describing her: https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/profile-rupi-kaur-author-of-milk-and-honey.html
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Jan 27, 2018 01:31
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I bet you all will like this, insteaddear white america posted:i’ve left Earth in search of darker planets, a solar system revolving too near a black hole. i’ve left in search of a new God. i do not trust the God you have given us. my grandmother’s hallelujah is only outdone by the fear she nurses every time the blood-fat summer swallows another child who used to sing in the choir. take your God back. though his songs are beautiful, his miracles are inconsistent. i want the fate of Lazarus for Renisha, want Chucky, Bo, Meech, Trayvon, Sean & Jonylah risen three days after their entombing, their ghost re-gifted flesh & blood, their flesh & blood re-gifted their children. i’ve left Earth, i am equal parts sick of your go back to Africa & i just don’t see race. neither did the poplar tree. we did not build your boats (though we did leave a trail of kin to guide us home). we did not build your prisons (though we did & we fill them too). we did not ask to be part of your America (though are we not America? her joints brittle & dragging a ripped gown through Oakland?). i can’t stand your ground. i’m sick of calling your recklessness the law. each night, i count my brothers. & in the morning, when some do not survive to be counted, i count the holes they leave. i reach for black folks & touch only air. your master magic trick, America. now he’s breathing, now he don’t. abra-cadaver. white bread voodoo. sorcery you claim not to practice, hand my cousin a pistol to do your work. i tried, white people. i tried to love you, but you spent my brother’s funeral making plans for brunch, talking too loud next to his bones. you took one look at the river, plump with the body of boy after girl after sweet boi & ask why does it always have to be about race? because you made it that way! because you put an asterisk on my sister’s gorgeous face! call her pretty (for a black girl)! because black girls go missing without so much as a whisper of where?! because there are no amber alerts for amber-skinned girls! because Jordan boomed. because Emmett whistled. because Huey P. spoke. because Martin preached. because black boys can always be too loud to live. because it’s taken my papa’s & my grandma’s time, my father’s time, my mother’s time, my aunt’s time, my uncle’s time, my brother’s & my sister’s time . . . how much time do you want for your progress? i’ve left Earth to find a place where my kin can be safe, where black people ain’t but people the same color as the good, wet earth, until that means something, until then i bid you well, i bid you war, i bid you our lives to gamble with no more. i’ve left Earth & i am touching everything you beg your telescopes to show you. i’m giving the stars their right names. & this life, this new story & history you cannot steal or sell or cast overboard or hang or beat or drown or own or redline or shackle or silence or cheat or choke or cover up or jail or shoot or jail or shoot or jail or shoot or ruin
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Jan 27, 2018 01:36
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She's kinda hot
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Jan 27, 2018 01:40
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Read Emily Dickinson
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Jan 27, 2018 01:43
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“This guy is the best,” she says, noticing an edition of Kafka’s complete stories; she’s referring to Peter Mendelsund, the book’s designer. “The dream is to have him design my next book."
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Jan 27, 2018 02:00
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Nanomashoes posted:“This guy is the best,” she says, noticing an edition of Kafka’s complete stories; she’s referring to Peter Mendelsund, the book’s designer. “The dream is to have him design my next book."  
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Jan 27, 2018 02:20
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thehoodie posted:I bet you all will like this, instead this isn't good either. do you read anything good
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Jan 27, 2018 02:23
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prose poetry is almost universally maturbatory trash tho. the only exception I can think to make rn is poe's eureka, and then only because it's 1) insane and 2) weirdly spot on about the Big Bang somehow
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Jan 27, 2018 02:28
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Gotta say I'm with Rupi Kaur re: Mendelsund. He is the only book cover designer whose name I know because The Rings of Saturn is the only book whose cover was interesting enough for me to look it up. e: that said, everything else about her public persona is pathetic and pandering, and her books belong in the trash. Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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Jan 27, 2018 02:34
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derp posted:that dinosaur example of poetry is what has always confused me about what poetry actually is. I remember i had a creative writing class in like, 10th grade and i couldn't get my teacher to explain to me what makes something a poem. so for a poem i had to write for an assignment, i just wrote out a paragraph about how i didn't understand what poetry was, spaced it out to have the shape of a poem, and turned it in and got full credit for it. I was kind of hoping he would explain to me why it wasn't poetry but i guess it was. this is a great story actually, lol I love hearing stories of huge miscommunication between teachers and students that leads to this poo poo my friend during college took a creative writing poetry class during summer, and one week the teacher wanted everyone to write a fourth of July poem. so my friend just writes this cute, dumb little rhyme about a group of plucky kids firing off roman candles in the middle of the neighborhood on a school night while eating cold hotdogs. one line was something like "torturing the dogs 'til they howled in fear" or something like that, just some clever way of saying "the fireworks were loud and dogs hate loud things" i guess that line wasn't clear enough though, and the teacher, when she read the poem, latched onto the idea of dogs being tortured, and she gave him a C- and sent him her own revised version of the poem, something she said was more vivid. she twisted this silly, light-hearted adventure into this loving free verse rudyard kipling nightmare about a posse of kids shoving lit fireworks up dog's "virgin holes", gunsmoke and the heavy miasma of ichor soaking the dilapidated neighborhood. he was so destroyed when he received this revised edit and I really, really wish I saved both the before and after poems just to show the grotesque transformation and completely missed point of the original. Douk Douk fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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Jan 27, 2018 02:52
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what the gently caress
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Jan 27, 2018 02:57
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I bought this weird travelogue where a dude travels around my part of the world and just remembers things & drops some historical tidbits and what-not. It's strange and meandering, and hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket & everything! What a publisher, to publish crazy narrow poo poo like that. It seems he's only written 3 books at all in his life and they're all like that. *looking him up* ah, he was the director of the publisher at the time. Still, it's quite entertaining, heh. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfred_Hartmann
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Jan 27, 2018 02:59
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Douk Douk posted:this is a great story actually, lol I love hearing stories of huge miscommunication between teachers and students that leads to this poo poo pls do you have a copy of this
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Jan 27, 2018 03:00
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chernobyl kinsman posted:prose poetry is almost universally maturbatory trash tho. the only exception I can think to make rn is poe's eureka, and then only because it's 1) insane and 2) weirdly spot on about the Big Bang somehow Moscow to The End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev is ludicrously good and I've heard people call it prose poetry
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Jan 27, 2018 03:25
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chernobyl kinsman posted:this isn't good either. do you read anything good I knew you would like it. I mostly just thought it interesting that there were no contemporary poets cited in this thread and had this Smith book on my desk. I think he has better poems but I like these (they are also originally spoken word so that somewhat changes them. How about Vanessa Place: Psalm and Miss Scarlett Or Charles Bernstein: Dear Mr Fanelli Or Alejandra Pizarnik (she is not contemporary though): Three Poems Also Mendelsund is rad, check out his What We See When We Read for a good time (though it doesn't explore the concept as deeply as I would have liked)
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Jan 27, 2018 03:36
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