Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled from some of Rummy's more quixotic press conferences and poeticized by Slate writer Hart Seely--to music. The composer, Bryant Kong, plays piano while an operatic soprano belts quotes from the former Secretary of Denial, like this now famous quote which Seely titled "The Unknown":
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things...
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