The Hatred of Poetry Romans Snowmare Iain Sinclair's Conductors of Chaos

Iain Sinclair's Conductors of Chaos (1996)

die toegankelijk is dankzij een heldere taal waarin de verwondering op achteloze wijze wordt vormgegeven

he began to write poems of tremendous power

What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be

The Hatred of Poetry Romans Snowmare Iain Sinclair's Conductors of ChaosBen Lerner The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance. No art has been denounced as often as poetry. Its even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because