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Andrei Codrescu
American
Poet
Born:
Dec 20
,
1946
American
Artists
Birthday
Money
Oddity
Society
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Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
Andrei Codrescu
Birthday
Party
Birthday Party
Kid
Something
Most
Friend
Get
Artists
Them
Persuade
Paid
Show
Lucky
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
Andrei Codrescu
Own
Other
Other Countries
Our
Countries
Welcoming
Least
American
Accustomed
Refugees
Creating
Receiving
New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
Andrei Codrescu
Me
Corrupt
Reminds
New
Because
New Orleans
Very
Politically
Romania
Orleans
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
Andrei Codrescu
Way
Immediate
Circumstances
Poets
Greatest
Tragedy
Than
Even
Express
Larger
My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.
Andrei Codrescu
Freedom
Mother
Made
Jews
Sold
States
He
Part
Head
Bought
Instead
Between
Also
Deal
Israel
Came
Were
West
Germans
Germany
Bundle
Currency
Going
Romania
Ethnic
Hard
United
United States
Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
Andrei Codrescu
Love
Beautiful
Language
Complex
Vivid
Poetry
Poets
Mystical
Particular
Like
Genuinely
Souls
There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.
Andrei Codrescu
Art
You
Problem
Money
Internet
Field
Slight
Out
Would
Only
Takes
Conceive
Days
Conceptual
Known
Making
Making Money
Get
Artist
Artists
Being
Paid
Who
Serious
Species
Levels
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