And that last one unfinished and sent by mistake - apologies again,
I'm having a very busy day and as well my daughter is home sick -
no, Erminia, I don't doubt that what happened post-Eco in Italy has
its own particular significance and originality; why should I want to
take anything away from Italy? However, in your descriptions of the
Gruppo poets, you don't identify any characteristics which
distinguish them from the experiments of earlier writers; and it's
entirely possible that pastiche- or collage- derived experiments in
English might have entirely other geneaologies, which reach back
further into the past than even 1963 and come from other places than
Italy. This does not diminish whatever the Gruppo poets did; but
presumably they also trace their own genealogies (back to Dada?)
Best
Alison
>Sorry for that last bad tempered post. I think what's at issue is
>that I was assuming that everyone knows that collage and pastiche is
>a common 20C technique, which is why I didn't bother to explain,
>while you took it that I thought it was something novel.
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