Porn and Poetry

The Poetry as porn analogy has been popping up in my world a lot recently.

-Nada Gordon made a reference to it, saying Keats has a similar effect on her to that which she perceives porn is supposed to have.

-I'm not sure if she's mentioned it on her blog, but Theresa has often told me that she wants her poetry to be "language porn". I take this to mean that she wants her poetry to revel in language in socially inappropriate ways, that she wants to tear off what covers it, hoping to expose it in the midst of some embarrassing act.

-Linh Dinh has dealt with the whole issue a lot, but the most obvious recent example is his great (and often terrifying) blog: The Lower Half (NSFW).

-Dodie Bellamy mentions porn from time to time. I couldn't find any posts, or instances of her talking, explicitly, about porn as it relates to poetry. I'm probably not looking hard enough.

-Johannes Göransson talks about it, and mentions a paper he's writing on the topic.

-Jessie Stead's films come to my mind as an interesting (though it might seem out of the way) example. Her camera wavers so close to everyday objects (and for so long) that it can often seem "inappropriately" intimate. She somehow makes me feel as if I'm watching a marble undress (and really enjoying it).

-Both the porn industry and the poetry industry protested the bailouts in similar ways. (see Larry Flint's request for a bailout, and Charles Bernstein's).

-I'm missing some big examples, but mostly just trying to list recent examples I've come across.