Taylor Swift: A Very Busy Poet?

Editing, Rushed Creativity, Emos, and Colson Whitehead

From a literary perspective there are many ways to approach the latest episode in our final saga of monoculture: Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department. From a literary perspective we could talk about her literary references (Dylan Thomas, Patti Smith, etc, etc.) or what aesthetic non-poets think “tortured poet” is (all you need to know …