{"id":4892,"date":"2014-07-29T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2014-07-29T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:21:20","slug":"tweets-penyeach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"tweets penyeach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1024px-TomScholz.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4895\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1024px-TomScholz.jpg?resize=500%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1024px-TomScholz\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1024px-TomScholz.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1024px-TomScholz.jpg?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here is our poetry,&#8221; proclaimed Ezra Pound in 1910, &#8220;for we have pulled down the stars to our will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was talking about lightbulbs.<\/p>\n<p>Poor poetry. It can&#8217;t just be the highest form of speech. It has to trail clouds of metaphorical gas.<\/p>\n<p>And so Virginia Heffernan, in a &#8220;3 min&#8221; at <em>Medium<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/poetry-in-the-age-of-poetry-ffedbf94b407\">declares<\/a> tweets to be poems and\u00a0heralds a new &#8220;Age of Poetry&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);\">Asking what\u2019s to become of poetry in the age of Twitter is like asking what\u2019s to become of music in the age of guitars. It thrives. It more than thrives; it grows metastatically, invasively, inoperably. Poetry on the Internet has shot far past relevancy through indispensability and finally to vaporization. Poetry is the air we damn breathe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My, that&#8217;s chewy prose. It&#8217;s like eating a raw lamb shank.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as fond of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4822\">tweetform<\/a> as the next aphorist manqu\u00e9, but do we really have to drag poetry into it? Let tweets be tweets. Whatever the air we damn breathe, poetry it&#8217;s damn not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of Boston&#8217;s Tom Scholz in the age of guitars: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Scholz#mediaviewer\/File:TomScholz.JPG\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Here is our poetry,&#8221; proclaimed Ezra Pound in 1910, &#8220;for we have pulled down the stars to our will.&#8221; He was talking about lightbulbs. Poor poetry. It can&#8217;t just be the highest form of speech. It has to trail clouds of metaphorical gas. 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