8.05.2014

nor song nor poem

The poem will never be as simple as the song. The song will never be as nuanced as the poem.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Proto-lingo! -- Who'd have though tit!

Conrad DiDiodato said...

I think a good book to see (& appreciate) the interesting interrelationships of 'song' and 'poetry' (going all the way back to Homer) is Gregory Nagy's Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond.

We're more indebted to this notion of "Homeric performance" than we think.

JforJames said...

Thanks for the book recommendation, Conrad.

Homer to Hip-Hop.