Thank you Candice. I want to specify that the person who disparaged my poem
Brecht's voice was in fact the person who I was talking to on the phone
(therefore, Brecht himself) whose voice I was recording by typing down
whatever he was saying. Then, he realized I was typing down something and
said the sentence which concludes the poem, so when I under request I read
the poem to him, he went bananas and said "So, this is what you call
poetry? This is a piece of shit).
I had to reply that to de- contextualize a speech is one of the post-modern
techniques in poetry and that in fact what sounded so intense in a one-to-
one conversation might sound bare and un-poetical if place is a alien
situation.
He kept on saying this is all rubbish...and that I had no right to exploit
what he was saying over the phone to me in a private conversation.
But I went on insisting that my creative procedure was legitimate and that
even Yeats who was not exactly post-modern (as in fact he was a modernist)
used authomatic speech to compose poetry. (here is my poem made with his
wordsJ
"Brecht's voice"
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Macro
Microtext
Madrigalesque
And I mister Brecht
Miss you and I wish
You knew what my life is like
I am five steps on the asylum
I went to my sister’s house
As you well know
What are you
Fucking
Typing
?
My friend’s irritation disproportionally escalated, so I had to warn him
that one cannot claim authorship on what one drops out of one’s mouth and
that I as a “poet” (indulging in the stealing of words) am authorized to
employ one’s words as they come out, with no syntactical lexical change or
maquillage, if I wish.
I also advised him that if he does not wish to risk to see his vents of
feelings published simultaneously on paper magazines or e-zines, then he
should avoid talking to me.
Please, companions and comrades, tell me, who of the two of us is right in
his/
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:26:30 -0500, Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Well, I liked it, Ermie--for its penetrating nub of penile sharpness at the
>nib (and the "Fucking/Typing" part)--Candice
>
>
>> Companions, fellows, I was just said that the piece I posted to the list,
>> entitled Brecht's voice, is a piece of shit. Do you agree?
>> I do.
>>
>> erminia
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