Dear All,
I am forwarding this letter of complaint by Elizabetta, sent to British
Poets.
She seems to believe strongly in authorship and be against collaborative
pieces.
But, I say, you authors can always have your single bio-texts published and
acknowledged if you want.
Collaboration is beautiful.
W, W, W..... Viva la Collaboration,
Erminia Passannanti et Al.
(or else, One, No-one, Onethousand)
(follows forwarded message)
> I was reading in Poetry Review about John Kinsella's earlier 'Geo-text'
> project along the same lines -- presumably Poetryetc didn't have the
> same snorts of derision we did here when asked to write about ourselves
> in our location -- where he asked listmembers to write on the theme
> using no punctuation, then he has scrambled & remixed the results into a
> 'collaborative' text, which is to be published as a book. Looks like
> this commission is very productive for some people and can produce
> invigorating results (I don't think we need ever so many more posted
> here; they are presumably available on Poetryetc's archive @ mailbase).
> I also think it's a rather particular notion of collaboration, where
> people are basically being milked for material ... or is that completely
> unfair? Douglas's note held perhaps a note of regret that his piece
> (which I thought wonderful) was to be subordinated and lose its effect.
> Hey Douglas, you don't *have to give it away!
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