Old Shoes

November 6, 2007

Dear Victor, My very first drop of blood Fell on this land

RENDRA wrote Old Shoe Poems: when there is an intimate, basic relationship between a person and a plot of earth—and that relationship blossoms into poetry—we are witnessing something that capitalism cannot explain.

Capitalism would change that piece of earth into space that is exchangeable, and later, or concurrently, consumed. Consumption is the act of eradication. The plot of ea

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