Just one more question for the people regarding the politics debate...

I hope Lisa Jarnot makes an appearance. I respect her work a lot. I'm interested to hear what she says about all this. This is the question: what do we call the something-else that isn't activism but is valid in poetry? I have been playing a little bit of devil's advocate with my questions. I have been leading the witnesses!

For me, appreciating Jarnot's work is akin to appreciating a piano sonata. There is an experience which can't be logically explained. It can probably only be explained in the abstract, or in poetry. OR some other art which doesn't rely on this type of language I'm using now. There is a feeling that I get. I think of the Thom Yorke/Howard Zinn interview that recently went around email. Yorke talks about transcendence through art. This is a cheesy word, but I am shameless. Would we criticize Beethoven for not writing political music, even though he was a political person? I don't think so.. I think I would love to hear attempted definitions of that Other Thing that happens in art which is also necessary to humans. Please write these descriptions for me now. 25 words or less! Or more! Why/how Sea Lyrics & Beethoven do something good for life even though they aren't political. Thank you.