Komninos you say:
poetry that has been composed to be heard and may never be
> written down.
IN which, er, case it will not be 'written to be read', will it?
I have this peculiar notion that the Oddysey and Iliad survive as books.
Odd, that.
david bircumshaw
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From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: getting back to spatiality
> At 08:49 AM 1/23/01 +1100, you wrote:
> >>but there is other poetry which can be written to be read, i believe.
> >
> >Is there any poetry which is written _not_ to be read (I ask
> >bewilderedly)?
>
> sure alison poetry that has been composed to be heard and may never be
> written down.
> i offer melbournian busker poet allan gregory(rip), as an example.
> also the od and il before homer.
> aboriginal dreamtime stories.
> shall i go on.
>
> or do you believe the only real poetry is published in books?
>
> komninos
>
>
> komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
> cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
> komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
> lecturer in cyberStudies,
> school of arts,
> gold coast campus,
> griffith university,
> pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
> queensland, 9726
> australia.
>
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