Thoughts as I read:
Last one - American?
Not just politics, but human rights/activism/equality
Seem to point out fallacies of people as well as the humanness of people
Ironically, a bit of nationalism as well as criticism
"Town" by Kate Schapira is very interesting. All of these texts seems to focus on the idea of places, whether it be entire countries or one small town that doesn't actually exist. How do people live here? What are we going to do about problems we face here? How do we work here? etc. but also, travel, so handling oneself in other places.
These are different from uncreative poetry because they focus on people (not that the uncreative can't focus on people - the important part, to me, seemed to be the analysis of creation rather than the outcome, whereas the outcome in these is clearly important as per the people they are about). They tackle important political concepts and behaviors with poetry that flows more normally, almost (like "regular" vs. avant-garde poetry), rather than focusing entirely on the process and having a more choppy outcome. Like traditional poetry (regardless of genre) there is meaning to be had in the words themselves, rather than just how they are placed or where they came from.
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