> I don't understand the spleen behind this? Could you explain? Thanks.
> -Andrew
Just wondering, but could anyone help me out on this.?Experience at
communicating with the profoundly I better not say might be an asset.
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Felsinger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: On copyright
> I don't understand the spleen behind this? Could you explain? Thanks.
> -Andrew
>
> > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:42:02 -0000
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Fw: Re: On copyright
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: On copyright
> >
> >
> >> Now really folks
> >>
> >>
> >> I've just been looking at VeRT and am overwhelmed by its spark and
> >> intellectual audacity. The bits of selective quotes for instance are
> >> cleverly concealed under the title 'BRISTISH poets' which is obviously
a
> >> pomo ploy on the part of its editors to look like total morons, very
> >> successful I might add, while I just have to quote a few excerpts here
> > from
> >> a self-interview conducted by its editors:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Leonard:
> >>
> >> I would also count Blanchot and Jabes among my personal favorites. As
to
> >> experimentation, there's nothing new under the sun. There are things
> >> that stand in contrast to expectations. I think of John Ashbery as a
prose
> >> poet.
> >> The French surrealists, too, had no argument with normative syntax.
> > Rosmarie
> >> Waldrop's trilogy is as good as anything that's ever been written in
> > prose,
> >> and
> >> her translations of Edmond Jabes are classic. I think of J.H. Prynne as
a
> >> prose
> >> poet. We're about to publish a book by Beth Anderson, who refuses the
> > prose-
> >> poet label...<
> >>
> >> This is stunning and absolutely true. Sibelius was also a prose poet,
as
> > was
> >> Jane Austen, and Edward Lear, while too the drivers on the 22 bus
> > (peaktime)
> >> have no arguments with normative syntax and there are MANY THINGS (that
is
> >> so profound) that stand, sit, waddle, skulk or otherwise perform a
> > contrast
> >> to expectations.
> >> J.H.Prynne is also very good with kitchen appliances.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> 3) Untitled has a wonderful energy and flamboyance, do you care to
> >> comment on this? How does this observation strike you?
> >>
> >> Jono:
> >>
> >> Thanks! I mean, you can blame it's success on the writers in Issue #1,
> >> who made it relatively easy to assemble a packet of energy. But I also
> > think
> >> this speaks to the fact that a mag of lesser known ideas on prose has a
> > lot
> >> to offer to the world of writing.<
> >>
> >>
> >> Absolutely!! I blame its success on the writers in Issue One. Has
anyone
> >> seen John Tranter?
> >>
> >>> Kent Johnson has a wonderful sense of humor. The letters raise lots of
> >> interesting questions about authorship, about identity, and about the
> >> territorialism of writing. This is a problem, I think. That we can
> > determine
> >> who
> >> has the right to speak about anything, in any form. Speech and writing
are
> >> eerily bound to nothing other than the desire to say something right
for
> > the
> >> speaker, regardless of the world, even if the speaker does not know the
> >> world.
> >> We have to have faith that the speaker does know the world. And if s/he
> > does
> >> not, we can choose to reply for the world we know to be true. That's
all.
> >> But I
> >> also think the writing stands apart from this. It's funny, it's
bizarre,
> >> it's
> >> touching, it's interesting. And when we first accepted it, I was
totally
> >> ignorant
> >> of the scandal. --
> >>
> >>
> >> Leonard: I didn't know that.<
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh how true: Kent Johnson has a wonderful sense of humour, but I also
> > agree
> >> with Leonard : 'I didn't know that' (I like this game, it's called
> > selective
> >> quotation)
> >>
> >>
> >> I just realised at this point I haven't got the faintest idea who
Leonard
> >> and Jono are but if anyone wants to speak to the Editors of VeRT, like
say
> >> about why the fuck did the ignorant bastards think it was ok to quote
one
> >> without the courtesy of consent, you can mail them at
[log in to unmask]
> > and
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry, I forgot, I'm supposed to be Orpheus.
> >>
> >> Oh Nada
> >>
> >> Niento
> >>
> >> db
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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