FLUXLIST: teenage poetic perspective

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Heiko wrote:
 
> << > me. Quite bland. I think Rimbaud's life was more interesting than his 
> art. That's my
>  
>  Matineee d'ivresse ? >>

Then BP wrote:

> Yes, but did you think that when you were a teenager?
> 

now I write:


It's interesting but somehow reading certain poets as a teeneager they seem
to have much more power or maybe just a different power. Maybe one is more 
romantic/idealistic at that stage of life...
long before rent,work,bills etc.  Also one's understanding is very
limited then too..I think poetry is such exotic use of language when you
first begin to enjoy it at that age. 

The success of many poets is I think the ability to retain a child's/teenage
wonder at the external world. Fluxus has this quality also although it is
focused to a much greater degree. 

You read the same poems over the years and with each age they take on
different meanings. 

cheers,

Sol.