Mark Bibbins, poetry editor of "The Awl," has posted the first poem of 2012 to contain an epigraph from Immanuel Kant on a theme usually associated with Edmund Burke. For more, click here. If you are willing to take a brief survey that wll help us serve you better, please answer any of the following questions prior to hanging up:
(1) Is "beauty is truth" a meaningless statetment?
(2) Is a "turkey dinner" a good example of the sublime or should Cole Porter go jump in the lake?
(3) Will the Braves go in front of the Mets on a Jason Hayward home run?
(4) Is baseball sublime? Is basketball beautiful? Where does that leave football?
(5) Is it better to have love and lost than never to have loved at all?
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1. Although it might be concluded that convulsiveness is, there is no doubt in this regard the specific imagery is paramount, and in any case neither truth nor beauty is anything more than phenomenal.
2. As Paul Violi said: “Where won’t you be / when I’m alone.”
3. That would be nice.
4. Much maligned, football is merely transcendent.
5. Is it better to die than never to have lived?
Posted by: Scott | September 09, 2012 at 09:56 AM
truly, maybe cole porter was just always having a problem whether he wanted to be on the bottom or the top...i mean if your wanted to be on the top, you had to agree to being cellophane...and then he got to be the G.O.P. nominee...i mean, c'mon
Posted by: bill | September 09, 2012 at 12:57 PM