http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/09/writing-and-failure-part-6/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/09/writing-and-failure-part-6/#comment-999 Michael Gushue Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:05:11 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=396#comment-999 Thank you for this continuing interesting series of posts. "No other artform can in fact tolerate such an incorrible affirmation maladroitness among it practioners" is a wonderful statement and might even be true. Artists in other media have been accused of this (my kid could paint that. I could bang pots together and make that), but these arguments seem to have much less purchase. I guess my question is why? I'm also a bit fuzzy on these terms: readers, critics, (also) audience, public. Who are these exactly? Muir says that poets no longer have an audience (thanks to industrialization, maybe capitalism). There's only the public, to whom you may or may not appeal as you choose. Thank you for this continuing interesting series of posts.
“No other artform can in fact tolerate such an incorrible affirmation maladroitness among it practioners” is a wonderful statement and might even be true. Artists in other media have been accused of this (my kid could paint that. I could bang pots together and make that), but these arguments seem to have much less purchase. I guess my question is why?
I’m also a bit fuzzy on these terms: readers, critics, (also) audience, public. Who are these exactly?
Muir says that poets no longer have an audience (thanks to industrialization, maybe capitalism). There’s only the public, to whom you may or may not appeal as you choose.
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