On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Call me an aesthete and a formalist, but freshly beautiful use of
> language, and emotional and/or intellectual complexity. What makes so
> much "political" art bad is that it recycles cliches - that it's
> painfully earnest and straightforward. Tell the truth, but tell it
> slant, as Emily Dickinson said.
>
> Doug
Or, as my poetry profs like Henry Carlyle like to say, "If you've got a message, send it Western Union". Red propaganda dressed up in tired cliches is not art.
Miles