In spite of his historically obvious dislike for experimental poetry, in
his piece “GHOST MACHINE SELF-ASSEMBLY KIT INSTRUCTIONS! , David Bircumshaw
unconsciously states that there is indeed something precious in the
unrealistic use of both parody and paradox in poetry and that an iron
statue in the shape of a machine should be erected in prize of those who
make attempts at it ,employing a variety of attitudes that range from pre-
Christian Roman Empire’s religious tolerance to the recent Americanised
trans-continental use of anti-ageing endorphins to prevent testicles to
suffer from premature atrophy and collapse. However, as Dominique is
directly involved in the perpetuation of the tradition in question, and as
I myself as an Italian late exponent of the poetic trend of the neo-post-
modern absurdism which transcend the definition of language poetry, a
summary of possible remedies will be soon posted in aid of those who find
it inadmissible.
I was interested to see that David Bircumshaw’s piece GHOST MACHINE SELF-
ASSEMBLY KIT INSTRUCTIONS was in fact promoting our delayed school, and
that a recognition is finally coming, although mildly solicited and
unconditionally accepted , in other words welcome. . David Bircumshaw’s
piece GHOST MACHINE SELF-ASSEMBLY KIT INSTRUCTIONS makes the point that an
elected minority, otherwise called “The Ghosts” would replicate the
language of dementia to obtain sense and a disguised lyricism made of
imagination and resentful impecuniousness. I quote:
“Take three quarts of paradox from your nearest pint-pot. Add essence of
dementia. Stir briskly and pepper with molecules. Allow to stand and wait
for imagination to rise. Knead two gross of nebulae into a malleable
pastry. Add one poppet of whatever-it-is, a broad sauce of parody and a
prime choice cut of indignant indigence.”
and in this is actually hitting the point with insight and clarity. David
Bircumshaw’s recognition of an apparently unstructured and uncontrolled
generation of sense and poetic worth out of this kind of use of
linguistic unfathomable variety of functions is exact in that it
acknowledges the necessity and notion of a machinery, as in the spontaneous
associations of speech aphasia in dementia, and/or other forms of brain
lesions, among which, as it has been already pointed out, cancer.
Erminia
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