The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

Here's how assholes in this country think. New Yorkers went from 37 to 47%
supporting Bush - why? Because of the images of the POWs.

We get NO pictures of Iraqi casualties. NO images of Iraqi children and
civilians wounded.

It's a CLEAN war. But the Iraqis are DIRTY - they put the good guys on TV.

It's sickening. And every time I go online there's fury. And there's fury
when I watch tv, listen to the radio. There's no escape. It's a barrage.

- Alan

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Two Good Quotes


1942 April 5: To write poetry now, even on current events, Brecht feels,
means to withdraw into the ivory tower: 'It's as though one were practic-
ing the art of filigree. There is something eccentric, cranky, obtuse
about it. Such poetry is like the castaway's note in the bottle.  The
battle of Smolensk, too, is fought for poetry.' (Klaus Volker, Brecht
Chronicle.)

2003 March 25: To write poetry now, even on current events, Sondheim
feels, means to withdarw into the ivory tower: 'It's as though one were
practicing the art of filigree. There is something eccentric, cranky,
obtuse about it. Such poetry is like the castaway's note in the bottle.
The battle against Bush, too, is fought for poetry.' (Alan Sondheim, IT
Chronicle.)