here from goodreads after reading a few poems from the book through the internet. i love how your review is socio-politically profound. i love dakota’s channel but the poetry seemed too busy performing her digital persona in words, and while i don’t mind pretty sentences stringed to make a poem, because an influx of that kind of poetry too, is politically significant, i have found myself to feel emotionally disconnected when the text stretches on. really appreciate your review, will be reading more of your newsletters <3
last year (as a 14 year old), I found Dakota's Channel. I saw the fact that she had hundreds and thousands of subscribers as a young (twenty-something) and began to sort of worship her. I have always known I wanted to be a writer, and to see someone who achieved "success" at such a young age inspired me to continue. I began to try to mimic her style, and I recently realized that that was such a poor choice. While I really enjoy her channel, her poetry evokes no emotion in me at all; rather a series of hyper curated images and the identity of a "satanic" "sad girl". I realized that my poetry had to come from a place deep within, not created with the pure goal of success. Your piece really hit it on the nail, and I appreciate the fact that monetary success is not what determines a good writer.
"how can we untangle our reaction to a text between what profoundly impacts us in the solitary act of reading against the panoptic eye that watches next to us, scanning the book for what we can share online?"
"When a self is understood in terms of lifestyle and performance - rather than in terms of communal tradition or meaningful work, creation breaks between cultural signifiers and artistic content, where the suitability and reception of authors and artists come not from their mastery of specific skills so much as having an appropriate taste-making habitus online"
This JUST - I was trying to articulate what about this book bothered me and oh my lord you did more than that, you made manifest verbal cohesion for all these thoughts that have been bouncing around my brain as i experience art in an online world. Your writing is so freaking cool, thank you.
i've never read this book (just scouring for opinions based on the limited poems i've read) but i really love the way that you write, and hope to have a vocabulary like yours in the future.
This is so well articulated!
thank you!!! I'm glad it seems as articulate and not just a jumbled mess of thoughts that have been rattling around in my brain for a while
here from goodreads after reading a few poems from the book through the internet. i love how your review is socio-politically profound. i love dakota’s channel but the poetry seemed too busy performing her digital persona in words, and while i don’t mind pretty sentences stringed to make a poem, because an influx of that kind of poetry too, is politically significant, i have found myself to feel emotionally disconnected when the text stretches on. really appreciate your review, will be reading more of your newsletters <3
last year (as a 14 year old), I found Dakota's Channel. I saw the fact that she had hundreds and thousands of subscribers as a young (twenty-something) and began to sort of worship her. I have always known I wanted to be a writer, and to see someone who achieved "success" at such a young age inspired me to continue. I began to try to mimic her style, and I recently realized that that was such a poor choice. While I really enjoy her channel, her poetry evokes no emotion in me at all; rather a series of hyper curated images and the identity of a "satanic" "sad girl". I realized that my poetry had to come from a place deep within, not created with the pure goal of success. Your piece really hit it on the nail, and I appreciate the fact that monetary success is not what determines a good writer.
Minister of frown town over here
Minister of frown town over here
Minister of frown town over here
Completely agree, thank God someone said it
"how can we untangle our reaction to a text between what profoundly impacts us in the solitary act of reading against the panoptic eye that watches next to us, scanning the book for what we can share online?"
"When a self is understood in terms of lifestyle and performance - rather than in terms of communal tradition or meaningful work, creation breaks between cultural signifiers and artistic content, where the suitability and reception of authors and artists come not from their mastery of specific skills so much as having an appropriate taste-making habitus online"
This JUST - I was trying to articulate what about this book bothered me and oh my lord you did more than that, you made manifest verbal cohesion for all these thoughts that have been bouncing around my brain as i experience art in an online world. Your writing is so freaking cool, thank you.
i've never read this book (just scouring for opinions based on the limited poems i've read) but i really love the way that you write, and hope to have a vocabulary like yours in the future.
this was such an effective analysis and so incredibly well written!! thoroughly enjoyed :)