{"id":90765,"date":"2015-10-12T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90765"},"modified":"2015-10-12T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:06:13","slug":"the-slow-decline-of-the-fridge-poem-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-slow-decline-of-the-fridge-poem-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slow Decline of the Fridge Poem, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90768\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/magneticpoetry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90768\" class=\"wp-image-90768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/magneticpoetry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/magneticpoetry.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/magneticpoetry-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are about fifty of these under your fridge right now. Photo: Steve Johnson, via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In which Vivian Gornick lives in New York, and walks, walks, walks, and keeps walking, imagining herself under \u201ccitywide house arrest\u201d: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122960\/why-i-live-where-i-live\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like joining the endless stream of people moving steadily, as blood moves through veins and arteries, along these democratic streets<\/a>. The relief I felt stepping daily into the anonymous crowd was almost indescribable; and then relief morphed into vigor, and vigor gave me vital information \u2026 What struck me almost viscerally was the sense of expectation that seemed to rise and fall before my very eyes \u2026 It was this expectation that supplied New York with its unique brand of energy: avid, noisy, fast-moving; wild to get into the act. That was it, really, getting into the act \u2026 To this day, the street achieves for me what I so often cannot achieve for myself: composition.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When Trollope published <em>The Duke\u2019s Children <\/em>in 1879, he had to cull some 65,000 words from it\u2014presumably at the request of his editor. Now the uncut original has been published, and it turns out there was something to those 65,000 words: \u201cThe new version will most likely not change anyone\u2019s view of <em>The Duke\u2019s Children<\/em>, and yet all those tiny excisions do add up. The restored version is a fuller, richer book. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/11\/books\/review\/trollope-uncut.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s fascinating to compare the two versions and see what Trollope himself thought could go and what he insisted on keeping<\/a>. Maybe most revealing is a long fox-hunting sequence, about two-thirds of the way through, which Trollope trimmed only lightly. The sequence serves no crucial purpose in the book, other than providing Tregear with an occasion to have an accident that keeps him bedridden and apart from lovelorn Mary. It\u2019s there because there\u2019s almost always a fox-\u00adhunting scene in a Trollope novel.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Defenders of literary awards usually claim some kind of critical value for them; detractors say they\u2019re just part of the publicity machine. But no one\u2019s even arguing about the potential critical value of blurbs. Maybe it\u2019s time for someone to stand up for them. \u201cCan puffing\u2014the practice of lauding a book\u2019s merits in a few words, usually on its jacket blurb\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2015\/10\/do-rave-reviews-book-covers-count-literary-criticism\" target=\"_blank\">be considered a kind of literary criticism, however cynically regarded it might be<\/a>? \u2026 If we look at a couple of the puffs for this year\u2019s Booker shortlist, we might be able to bring this question into focus. The claim of the unnamed reviewer in\u00a0the<em> Independent\u00a0<\/em>that Anne Tyler\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Spool of Blue Thread<\/em>\u00a0is simply \u2018glorious\u2019 doesn\u2019t seem to get us very far into the realms of literary criticism. Eleanor Catton\u2019s gnomic description of\u00a0Chigozie\u00a0Obioma\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Fishermen<\/em>\u00a0as \u2018awesome in the true sense of the word\u2019 is perhaps more critically promising: what is the true sense of \u2018awesome\u2019? Why does this book in particular evoke that sense?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Not so very long ago, refrigerators across the land were freckled with tiny, easy-to-lose magnetic words from which passersby were intended to fashion a kind of \u201cpoetry.\u201d (More often, people used them to make vaguely naughty sex jokes.) So what became of Magnetic Poetry, to say nothing of the impulse behind it? \u201cBy\u00a0removing the messiest step\u00a0from the\u00a0cut-up technique, it made\u00a0the barrier to entry knee-high. It boxed up the creative process, putting it in the checkout aisle\u00a0and then, once on the fridge, directly at eye level. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-past-and-future-of-magnetic-poetry-the-populist-product-that-began-with-a-sneeze\" target=\"_blank\">It let us indulge all these instincts at once\u2014toward communication, creation, jokes, profanity\u2014and layered\u00a0the\u00a0results on\u00a0the domestic experience<\/a>. From the end of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, it turned kitchens everywhere into an\u00a0inescapable id pastiche.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The men (and they\u2019re always men) who commit mass killings have a discomfiting tendency to write: they nearly always leave behind a manifesto, and it is nearly always inscrutable. Why the compulsion to address oneself to posterity? And what, if anything, can be gleaned from their words? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n20\/andrew-ohagan\/whos-the-alpha-male-now-bitches\" target=\"_blank\">There have always been killers and they have often left pieces of writing behind<\/a> (think of Jack the Ripper and his notes written in blood); some of them were even called manifestos. The Manson \u2018family\u2019, a previous group of bent fans of popular culture who heard messages in songs, believed in a program of salvation that required the slaughtering of the human \u2018pigs\u2019 who put them down. Valerie Solanos wrote a manifesto that wants to be a feminist tract before shooting Andy Warhol. But not even Warhol, who understood something essential about fame, could have guessed that, one day, such would-be killers, or putative cleaners-up of our corrupt and oppressive world, would carry the wherewithal in the pocket of their jeans. All they needed was a smartphone and a set of grievances, and the world was theirs.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Vivian Gornick lives in New York, and walks, walks, walks, and keeps walking, imagining herself under \u201ccitywide house arrest\u201d: \u201cNothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like joining the endless stream of people moving steadily, as blood moves through veins and arteries, along these democratic streets. 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