this personal->impersonal->personal transition is fascinating to me as I
feel it marks a transition that can be seen in the development of early,
middle, and late futurism and concrete poetry.
tom
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Postmodern?
> Thanks for liking my poem Joe.
>
> As I was saying last night I feel that the crux of postmodern poetry
> is its impersonality, as opposed to the personal feel evident in
> vaguely mainstream work. Where impersonal poetry has a personal
> 'voice' it transcends itself and I did include some of this work
> in Lynx. But the pure impersonal is not for me.
>
> This is why it is well worth buying Trevor's book from Randolph
> because you can see him leave personal to impersonal as he develops
> but he cant help but impose a personal 'voice' on the impersonal
> in his final major piece of work. It is quite fascinating.
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
> > Being post-modern is more of a condition to be negotiated than a choice
to
> > be made.
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> > Joseph Duemer
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