{"id":86706,"date":"2015-06-16T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=86706"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:29:56","slug":"all-the-fun-of-poetry-without-all-those-poems-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/all-the-fun-of-poetry-without-all-those-poems-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Fun of Poetry Without All Those Poems, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86708\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1280px-kenyon_cox_-_an_eclogue_-_google_art_project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86708\" class=\"wp-image-86708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1280px-kenyon_cox_-_an_eclogue_-_google_art_project.jpg\" alt=\"1280px-Kenyon_Cox_-_An_Eclogue_-_Google_Art_Project\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1280px-kenyon_cox_-_an_eclogue_-_google_art_project.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1280px-kenyon_cox_-_an_eclogue_-_google_art_project-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1280px-kenyon_cox_-_an_eclogue_-_google_art_project-1024x816.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenyon Cox, <i>An Eclogue<\/i>, 1889.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Lerner stares into the mire of futility and falsehood that is poetry: \u201cWhat if we dislike or despise or hate poems because they are\u2014every single one of them\u2014failures? \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n12\/ben-lerner\/diary\" target=\"_blank\">The fatal problem with poetry: poems<\/a>. This helps explain why poets themselves celebrate poets who renounce writing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re on poets and failure\u2014in the midthirties, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/gallery\/2015\/jun\/10\/auden-britten\/\" target=\"_blank\">W. H. Auden entered into an auspicious if unlikely collaboration with Benjamin Britten<\/a>. Here\u2019s how that went: \u201cBritten wrote his first opera, and I my first libretto, on the subject of an American folk hero, Paul Bunyan. The result, I\u2019m sorry to say, was a failure, for which I was entirely to blame, since, at the time, I knew nothing whatever about opera or what is required of a librettist. In consequence some very lovely music of Britten\u2019s went down the drain, and I must now belatedly make my apologies to my old friend while wishing him a very happy birthday.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sixty years on, J. P. Donleavy\u2019s <em>The Ginger Man<\/em> \u201cremains a hilarious and upsetting portrait of postwar Ireland and the American GIs who showed up there, with the prerogative and the wherewithal to carouse and copulate on a level that the locals did not appreciate.\u201d And what of its author? He remains \u2026 obstreperous, a new interview suggests. \u201cWhen I return to the kitchen, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/visit-donleavyland-sixty-years-ginger-man\" target=\"_blank\">Donleavy has put on a funny pink bucket hat<\/a>. He tells me he never allowed any changes to his manuscripts, nor is he particularly inviting of second readers or the like.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s your very favorite thing? If you answered \u201cart fairs,\u201d congratulations\u2014you can\u2019t throw a rock without hitting one. (Also, you are probably very wealthy.) You could be at an art fair right now, in fact, in beautiful Switzerland, instead of reading this. Art Basel \u201cis one of at least 180 international art fairs held each year, up from only fifty-five in 2000 \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21654100-some-wonder-if-art-fair-boom-reaching-its-limits-brush-hour\" target=\"_blank\">The art calendar is so packed with them<\/a> that there is increasing talk of \u2018fair fatigue\u2019\u2014visitor and exhibitor saturation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Airports are such liminal spaces\u2014and are so widely loathed\u2014that we risk losing them to history. Who is documenting the airports? Who will remember them? Andrea Bruce is one of twenty photographers who <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/san-francisco-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\">took pictures of the airports she passed through in April<\/a>. \u201cEach time she let security scan her ISO 400 film with x-rays. Though the TSA claims that airport x-rays do not affect film of that speed in the United States, the repeated exposures to radiation left some of Bruce\u2019s photographs with what she describes as \u2018a faint, ghostly wave.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lerner stares into the mire of futility and falsehood that is poetry: \u201cWhat if we dislike or despise or hate poems because they are\u2014every single one of them\u2014failures? \u2026 The fatal problem with poetry: poems. 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