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Eunoia is an interesting work, to be sure. Bok is a talented artist. I just can’t get over him as a human. In every instance/interview/film I’ve seen of him, he yields such an utter lack of humility and, simultaneously, an undeniable self-congratulatory spirit, I find him hard to stomach. Thus, I don’t consider him in a long-term, credible way; he seems to be missing the things that make people with talent truly great, IMHO.
Still, I wish he would prove that assessment wrong.
Yeah … I posted this without comment, mostly because it just interested me. Not because I agreed with it. I think a lot of the stuff he does is fascinating, but I also think there is undeniably an attitude there that takes a little of the joy out of it.
I also feel like many people who do experimental art (not just poets, but across the board) have such a disdain for what they see as more “traditional” artists … and it shouldn’t be that way. I mean, I like all sorts of stuff, the “traditional” and the way-out-there. I like writing that makes me think, whether it rhymes, or is fashioned out of syllables and sounds, or it revolves around an “I” speaker. Do I have to choose sides?
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