this kind of "compliment" is also a backdoor way for white men to complain about how their work isn't as widely read. "you're popular right now!" kthx. and oh the pretension of writers in general who act like having fewer readers is a sign of (the height of!) literary merit
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often, this compliment of "came out at the right time" is followed up with "you're so accessible" and there's an implication that being understandable = not as literary. lmao. i love making accessible, personal (the other main descriptor) work. i also think it's intellectual.
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is poetry discourse really still stuck in these mutually exclusive categories—personal, so not intellectual; accessible, so not literary; topical, so not aesthetic; explores identity, so neither artistic nor politically radical enough
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Ugh. Or maybe you’re just a great poet who works really hard?
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Your work is timeless and vital and so are you!
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Petition to start telling them “so did yours luckily when white mediocracy was at its height”
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When I say your work came out at the right time I mean when I was alive to read it.
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