She got a small grant that allowed her to live for a year and to write. At the end of it, she felt a low-wage job may have been a better move for her writing.
Is not the 'starving artist' the biggest myth around these days?
The problem is (for poetry in particular) the prevalence in the postmodern age of the "the consuming aesthete" (Alisdair MacIntyre)who's imposing his/her fake sensibilities on a literary readerships that in turn are as jaded as the artist and whose indifference to cultural production in general has resulted in the need for grants and sabbaticals.
In Canada particularly it's a vicious cycle that's resulted in shelves of fully funded but largely unread books of poetry.
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Is not the 'starving artist' the biggest myth around these days?
The problem is (for poetry in particular) the prevalence in the postmodern age of the "the consuming aesthete" (Alisdair MacIntyre)who's imposing his/her fake sensibilities on a literary readerships that in turn are as jaded as the artist and whose indifference to cultural production in general has resulted in the need for grants and sabbaticals.
In Canada particularly it's a vicious cycle that's resulted in shelves of fully funded but largely unread books of poetry.
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