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For pure poetic imagery, I think it's hard to match Antony and the Johnsons’
"Epilepsy Is Dancing" (she got quite a bit of flack for the song). I don't know that I agree with it, but it is powerful -- albeit bizarrely visualized. I saw her do it on stage and the ending was as close to a dream state as I've ever heard.
She (now known as Anohni) is a gentle soul who has written some pretty potent poetically charged stuff. Not everyone’s cup of tea, mind you, but I like mine to alter my thinking.
Aaron, the "Octopus In A Straitjacket" piece you hold up as being the best poetic imagery of this young century just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe I’m misinterpreting what it is you are using to gauge poetic imagery. Would you tell me why you think it is a paragon of 21st century poetic imagery?
John, Amy Winehouse is/was a beautiful singer, writer and soul, no doubt about it. One of the best. The Arctic Monkeys, not so much to my ear. Nick Cave definitely.
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