Reclaiming Public Space Through Poetry
Responding to Hannah Arendt’s half-century-old lamentations about the loss of public space, City Journal contributing editor Michael Knox Beran challenges Arendt’s diagnosis that the loss public space is bound up in a degeneration of politics. Instead, Beran argues the condemning finger should be pointed at the loss of public poetry, an insight which he hopes may help those seeking to reestablish our lost public culture:
“Over the last few hundred years . . . there has been a falling-off in every department of public poetry—choral, dramatic, liturgical—as well as in popular and proverbial poetry. The traditional town-square transmitters of poetic culture . . . have turned their attention to other matters. Rock concerts and iPods we have in abundance, but our public spaces are unmusical.”
I also like to make poems and read lots of books that is related to Poetry.`”-
10 June 2010 at 1:08 pm