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From: brian%asci.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brian Douglass)
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Subject: Re: The Impact of Inventions
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 19:43:20 EDT
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Kent Paul Dolan writes:

> Nowadays, few people read at all, so the poets are writing TV jingles.
> You think that influences "few people"!  The essayests and philosophers
> are busy filling up the op-ed pages, and I doubt the ones who aren't read
> keep getting published.

In my opinion, the best Poets around are not writing TV jingles, but
Rock Songs.  Rock and Roll is the modern day asylum (?) of the Poet, and who
can deny their power to influence, ask any teenager what head bangin' is.
Some of their work can even be considered quite literary.  Recent examples
are Steve Winwood teaming with Will Jennings, as well as Peter Gabriel.
Then of course, there is the all time leader in displaying poetic power
in Rock, and that was and still is, YES.  And last I heard, none of these
guys was working for the military-industrial complex (which is just
average folks doing a job they know has to be done) (I'll excuse Kenny
Loggins for Top Gun).

Brian Douglass