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whats ur favorite steve roggenbuck poem

>> No.4446728

The one that confuses sentimentality for sincerity.

>> No.4446732

>>4446703

go to bed, steve

>> No.4446737

>>4446703

the one where his dad's on the roof and tells him the harvest is way over

that's the only one i remember because it was so ridiculous i laughed and shared it with a friend

>> No.4446738

>>4446703
The one that spells things wrong for no apparent reason other than being 'unique'.

>> No.4446740
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4446740

i like his image macros

>> No.4446745

>>4446740
that's a tweet.

>> No.4446755

>>4446745
*woah bro* did he just make twitter literature 8^D

>> No.4446762

>>4446755
he's compressing a novel's worth of emotions into 140 characters.

such is the trial of an internet poet :)

>> No.4446765

AS AN INTERNET POET IT'S YOUR JOB TO TEXT PEOPLE PICTURES OF THE SUNSET.

BUT BE SURE NOT TO SPELL SUNSET CORRECTLY YOU WOULDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET THE WRONG IDEA

>> No.4446767

>>4446738
he is mimicking/glorifying the stereotyped 'bad internet' way of typing, it's the same sort of high art / low art merger as praising justin bieber, dubstep or crocs. most people would say if you mis-spell things, type things badly, etc, then you aren't a "good poet" or you're "stupid".

steve roggenbuck glorifies low culture as a reaction to the kind of pretentiousness that says if you haven't read XYZ canon books and aren't inside the "artistic community" than your experiences and emotions are illegitimate. I think steve strives for promoting positivity, love, and appreciation for life and views a lot of things associated with "the literary community" (esp its exclusionary nature) as a barrier to that, and I think mis-spellings are part of this.

I like his books more than his videos, they are a lot more serious / literary, his videos are more like a kind of performance art thing, the actually words he says aren't particularly poetic I think.

>> No.4446774

>>4446767
So does he actually like Justin Bieber or is it his way or saying that it's okay to like Justin Bieber

>> No.4446780

>>4446767
Yeah, you could put it that way. But people have been saying that about "academia" forever.

Who's side is worth being on? I'd rather be Pynchon than a Beat poet.

>> No.4446782

>>4446755
twitlature~~~~~~~~

>> No.4446796

>>4446767
I dislike the notion of tying 'positivity, love, and appreciation for life' to this goofy pseudo-child pretend-idiocy attitude of his

>> No.4446798

>>4446774
he actually likes justin bieber.

>> No.4446803

>>4446767
>views a lot of things associated with "the literary community" (esp its exclusionary nature) as a barrier to that, and I think mis-spellings are part of this.

...Yes, if you can't spell, that's a pretty big barrier to being involved with the 'literary community'.

>> No.4446804

>>4446796
regardless, that's what he strives for. I was just trying to explain, from what I understand, what he is going for / why he does what he does.

>> No.4446816

https://twitter.com/steveroggenbuck/status/420295177001897984

>> No.4446838

>>4446703
wow i didn't know he was this popular. i thought only fans of that Shakusky band liked him

>> No.4446843

>>4446838
he has almost as many twitter followers as tao lin!!

>> No.4446853

>>4446843
>>4446838
DSPGaming has six thousand more than him.

>> No.4446856

>>4446853
>DSPGaming
mootikins has 48,000 more

>> No.4446878

>>4446780
>I'd rather be Pynchon than a Beat poet.
These two are not representative of what you seem to think they are.

>> No.4446884

>>4446856
nightvaleradio and 100,000 more than him, and it's not even verified

>> No.4446949

>>4446878
The best the Beats have to offer: Allen Ginsberg
The worst Academia has to offer: Harold Bloom
I'll take the brontosaurus

>> No.4447113

>>4446949
>not Burroughs

>> No.4447119

>>4447113
Burroughs' work isn't Beat literature.

>> No.4448272

>positivity is now considered deep
Actually that's about as shallow as it fucking gets. Sophistication is dealing with the difficult, whether difficult and strange flavors in cuisine or the difficult truth behind life. Novelty-seeking and "positivity" is easy, actual enlightenment is not.

>> No.4449067

this guy's shit reads like jayden smith

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>>4448272

>actual enlightenment

>> No.4449090

"AN INTERNET BARD AT LAST!!!" (ARS POETICA) is fantastic

>> No.4449093

>>4449089
>hurr nothing exists except my own pretension

>> No.4449095

>>4449093

now you're just being incoherent

>> No.4449131

Is this the new sincerity?

>> No.4449159

Yes it's the antithesis of hipsterdom, the end of history.