Sunday
Jan182009
'Kenny Goldsmith is Wrong'(?)
Sunday 18 January, 2009
Read Goldsmith's It's Always a Bad Time For Poetry, unrelated but contextually joygasmic, then read this:
via Silliman
Goldsmith, the Flarfists, and Hypertexters are the prominent examples (though one could argue John Ashbery and Albert Goldsmith, no relation to Kenny have been doing this sort of thing for awhile, and certainly the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e=d=o=I=h=a=v=e=
t=o=k=e=e=p=d=o=i=n=g=t=h=i=s=? poets react against "easy" language by disrupting expected patterns of association and syntax). So the question becomes, are Kenny and Flarfy simply surrendering to the lame-language-leviathan instead of resisting easy grossy stimulus?
via Silliman
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