On Thursday, October 30 at 12:30 P.M. in A 2200 (Dunwoody) the Dunwoody History and Politics Club will sponsor Dunwoody poet and Humanities Professor Charles Fox thinking with us about “Truth in Punditry: How Poetry Can Save Us From the Experts.” He will be analyzing how politicians use language to craft “reality.”
Professor Fox will encourage the audience to make up their own poems about Campaign 2008…. ……
Professor Fox writes:
Nobel Prize winning poet Czeslaw Milosz says in his book The Witness of Poetry: “The poetic act changes with the amount of background reality embraced by the poet’s consciousness…So man constructs poetry out of the remnants found in the ruins.” Just like political pundits who twist and shape their arguments to maximize their candidates position, so too must poets carefully construct their poems. The difference, however, is that the shaping of a poem requires the difficult and unusual task of telling a truth which the poet may not know, or that the poet is not ready to speak. Poetry is an act of searching; it is not always the act of discovering. When we take the words of the pundits and shape them into poems, we sometimes find truths that none of us expected—truths that the pundits might not be willing to admit.
Hope to see you Thursday in A 2200 at 12:30 P.M.
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