Tuesday, December 30, 2008

News at Eleven: How can the poetic expression contribute to

the building of a truly humanist world, not a deranged one, not a fetishistic, hyper-individualistic, racist, sexist or mercantilist world, one without merciless exploitation by one class of another?

[Luis Delgado] Arria stresses that it has always been problematic in Latin America, indeed dangerous, to claim that politics can be formulated as poetry. In the past, there was a desire to use poetry and organise it into neatly settled territories of order and humility.

from Morning Star: The poetry of resistance

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