Very interesting, kent,
& the old ways will remain strong, as the audience for authors remains
strong, it seems, as well as for their 'straight,' & traditional
representations of feelings of the self...
>But this will require strong conceptual moves that leave behind the
>vanishing point of genetic ascription and push poetic- performative
>activity-- sometimes illicitly and against ìknown lawsî-- beyond the generic
>canvass-horizon of the page.
One of the ways this happens is in collaborative sound poetry performances,
which also, in many cases, change from performance to performance, like
jazz...
Doug
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