La actuación como expresión poética

"Yo tengo un trabajo más duro o más difícil que nadie en ese escenario. ¿Saben lo que hago? Conecto. Hago que la gente se levante. Busco al hombre que no se levanta y lo hago levantarse", explica el vocalista de Stillwater, Jeff Bebe, al resto de la banda. Como todo lo que hay en la película Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe obtuvo la idea del recurrente discurso de Bruce Dickinson cuando habla de su labor al frente de Iron Maiden y que continuamente aparece en películas sobre heavy metal. Cierto, pero probablemente es escasa la idea, tal vez es necesario tomar las palabras de alguien más.

Rimbaud dijo que necesitaba un nuevo escenario y un nuevo sonido para crear poesía, prácticamente esa es la idea alrededor del libro Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, algunas ideas son directas, otras deambulan alrededor de los hechos y cada pérdida en la identidad de una generación, sin embargo pocos tienen tan claro como Patti Smith lo que significa ponerse al frente y tratar de revolucionar a una persona a través de sus oídos.

Patti Smith: "Physical presentation in performing is more important than what you're saying. Quality comes through of course, but if your quality of intellect is high, and your love of the audience is evident, and you have a strong physical presence, you can get away with anything".

William Burroughs: "You see, Patti started out as a poet, then turned to painting, and then she suddenly emerges as a real rock star. Which was strange, because I don't think she could have gone very far either in her poetry or her writing, just from scratch. But suddenly, she's a rock star. There was no question of that. Patti Smith: I started getting successful writing these long, almost rock & roll poems. And I liked to perform them, but I realized that, though they were great performed, they weren't such hot shit written down. I'm not saying I didn't stand behind them, but there's a certain kind of poetry that's performance poetry.

It's like the American Indians weren't writing conscious poetry. They were making chants, they were making ritual language—and the language of ritual is the language of the moment. But as far as being frozen on a piece of paper—they weren't inspiring. You can do anything you want as long as you're a great performer, you know, you can repeat a word over and over and over, just as long as you're a fantastic performer".

Patti Smith: "So I write to have somebody. Everything I write has a motive behind it. I write the same way I perform. I mean you only perform because you want people to fall in love with you. You want them to react to you".