The Disintegration School of Poetry:
I'm intrigued, because I can't quite figure out who or what you have in
mind. This is "new"? What is it anyway? Any examples, please? (Remove that
comma? i.e. do you find your examples pleasing? My guess is that you find
the Disintegrationists distressing. Am I wrong?) Is, say, Peter Riley a
member of this school? or Cris Cheek? or Herbert Selby? or am I barking up
the wrong sort of tree in the wrong forest. Could you please elaborate? How
is this sort of writing different from what's been going on since, hmmm,
Alexander Boyd? or Chatterton? or Ossian? or should I say Hugo Ball?
Peter Q
At 11:39 PM 2/18/98 Ernest Slyman wrote
>Is it possible a new school of poetry has taken up as its subject the
>disintegration of language?
>
>The Disintegration School of poetry is upon us. One finds it going about its
>business in literary publications. Strange spelling of words, oddly coined
>words, strange punctuation. Hypertext in which connections with other lines
>in other poems seem to have a vague relationship with the whole.
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