Snow Monkey: An Eclectic Journal: Featured Poet: John Sweet
Featured Poet: John Sweet
“What I don’t do anymore is explain what I write.
The poems are me, and they are the people around me, and they
are the events of the world that stick in my mind. Frequently
they are all these things at once.
Over the past ten years, I’ve received a fair amount
of polite brush-offs from editors who feel compelled to tell me
that there is no room for politics in poetry. This seems
to me to be a dangerous sort of ignorance. All self-expression
is, to some extent, political. The rejection of politics
in, in itself, a political act.
Art, I guess, should encompass everything that is within
the artist. It should be able to stand on its own, with no help
from the hands that created it. It’s a neat trick.
I only hope that the poems you find here are able to pull it off.”
-John Sweet
Some chapbooks by John Sweet:
- Songs for Soft Voice and Hammer
Method of Silence
Scorched Earth Policy
- Beneath the Bright blue Sky
- Bleeding Horse Landscape
- Circling Overhead
- Dead Baby Jokes
- Enemy
- Free Kittens for Dead Slaves
- S&M
- Wreckage
Note: Email Snow Monkey through the website with requests for
copies of these items. We will forward your requests to John in
New York.
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