Hello All. I know this is an ever-present issue, but I've been wondering
the past few months where we can find that real "far-out" edge, that edge
(sorry for the tired "pioneering" metaphor) where poets are *making with
and from and through infrequently explored media of language.
The term "post-avant" has been popping up here and there recently. And I
think it's an interesting term, insofar as it (to my mind) hints to a
recognition that what we'd previously called the avant-garde has gotten,
well, mainstreamed. Alan Golding has argued that the four or six massive
and widely-purchased "postmodern" and avant-garde anthologies of the 90s
really put an end to thinking that there was anything marginal anymore
about what had once been marginal. Am thinking here not merely of langpo
and post-langpo work, but of so much work labeled, often "postmodern."
And I know this question and this issue pops up every now and then, but I
haven't seen it pop up in a while -- and I've not really heard much talk
about the following in regards to these issues:
1. Digital poetry.
2. Code work (a term invented, I believe, by Alan Sondheim).
3. Hyperauthorship.
Are there other areas/modes being explored? Where is that field of current
belatedness???
Gabe
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