I guess I addressed to Su or anyone wants to feel that,
but I'm curious if there is a trend in maybe
aesthetic choices or language that we find adequate
or pushing adequacy to talk about subjects such as war
or political topics, things that are
difficult to find words for?
Or do you think it's just an individual decision?
That's really interesting because war is obviously not
new, and also the struggle to represent the experience of war
or the aftermath of war is not new either.
If anything, it's the breakdown of any sort
of authoritative school of poetry that's new.
People were talking about performance poetry.
It has been around for a long time
and it hasn't had as much popularity or as much
of an audience as it does now, partly because
of the new media.
It can reach people through HBO on a scale
that was not possible before.
Before it was just people who happen
to be in that club or bar listening to the performance
poetry.
That's part of it, I would definitely say.
Another part of it though is Akhmatova once
said that we're all thes in a world of a, and so in that case
I do also believe that, again, it's
so unique to the experience that each subject, each person,
each subjectivity is going to represent
his or her relationship in language in a very
unique and unrepeatable way.
Definitely.
I don't know that trends necessarily.
If anything, people are sort of much more aware of the fact
that even 20 years ago, many of the basic material
rights that are now taken for granted weren't in place.
30 years ago, 40 years ago, not that long ago
when you think about it, in a generation's time.
We're one of the first generations that really grew up
with the full effect of civil rights from birth onwards.
That's new, definitely, that sort of right
to speak that [INAUDIBLE] have taken for granted in the past.