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Recent highlights from the feneon collective
Wednesday 11 February, 2009
Ignoring her protests, laughing uproariously, M. Grenier tossed Mme DuPlessis back and forth on a swing a bit too vigorously. Off and up she went, landing, some twenty feet away, atop a nesting duck. Mme is fine; the duck, like Language poetry, is dead.
Ah, l’ amour fou. Professors of the “Hate Socialist Collective” have published, in Poetry Magazine, a passionate manifesto against Poetry Magazine... As Bourdieu said of Cultural Courtship: Sometimes suitors come offering roses, and sometimes they bend over, offering their postérieurs.
Having announced they would not “play with Harriet,” the Flarf poets also decided to not play with Possum. The hilarious meaning of such reluctance is perfectly obscure, understood but by those few who study such matters, in Chatelus-Saint-Marcellin.
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