Princeton – Meet Ke$ha
Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer-prize winning poet, and, more importantly, a tenured Princetonian, has some things to clear up about Ke$ha. For us lacking the cerebral wherewithal to grasp what Ke$ha, moneymaker and spiritual guru, is really preaching, realize not only is she alluding to Shakespearean motifs, but also elucidating, for local American xenophobes, the threat of men touching her Chinese watercrafts. As Muldoon puts it:
Tik Tok…I mean that’s time. Time. Uhm. And time of course is one of the big subjects [in poetry]. She’s got it covered.
Brilliant. Ke$ha, the next Robert Frost. There should be no more confusion: her grungy simpleton pop is, in fact, obvious poetry in motion.
