04-11-2016, 08:39 AM
(04-11-2016, 08:16 AM)billy Wrote: it so happens i'm living with a little brown woman and she's living with a little white fat bastard. just to give some ballast for the question.I don't think any topics should be off limits for a poet. Nothing wrong with a racist or sexist poem or even a poem by a racist or sexist if it is a good poem. I didn't think that poem was very good because I thought it was poorly written. The narrator loves little brown women - over and over throughout the poem but the reader is never really given a reason to care. Why wouldn't the narrator love little brown women in their many poses? We may never know (or care). Also, I thought it a poor use of repetition as it never opened other avenues of understanding or even built through reinforcement but rather just kept beating it into our skulss.
lets say the poem [if you haven't read it it doesn't matter] is racist [which i don't think it is] does or would that make it a bad poem?
who is to say it's about indian women? why not african or central american? or like the little brown woman that owns me; Filipino?
while the site doesn't openly advocate racism, sexism, child porn etc.; do we say the little brown women poem shouldn't be allowed? is it sexist/racist; it seems so to some. to me it's neither. i don't need a university dissertation on racism to know when a poem is just a poem.
discuss and i'm fine with being called out on this post.
Why not just say "I love little brown women" and skip the rest?
i don't know.

