1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal
Today\u2019s poem is Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cThis week\u2019s episodes are a special feature on ekphrasis \u2013 poems which engage with works of art. Poets possess an expansive intuition, a proclivity towards image-making that meets head-on the most difficult of artists. In responding to works of art, poets perform the gift of interpretation. By turning language into a critical practice, they find pathways into paintings and teach us how to see what they see. They make the paintings speak.\u201d
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