Robin wrote:-
'How do you call the Generation of 68?'
& given strong generational tensions in Australian
poetry, I suggest either (a) in friendly tones and
only during business hours or (b) have your
lawyer call rthem for you...
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: and it goes without saying that Skanky Possum rocks
> > language poetry is a poetry which uses a language.
>
> No -- it was always more singular than that.
>
> How do you call the Generation of 68?
>
> [My private definition is when Rudie Duesche got gunned down -- after
that,
> Danny the Red fronted, and then it was mostly micky mouse ... ]
>
> > It should be known that a language is not needed nowadays to write
poetry
>
> As if ...
>
> Aside:
>
> > lungs maybe
> > or samples of wildjazz pieces spliced together
> > this is the new thing
> > which is what dadaists did with pieces of poetry cut and mixed into a
hat
> > (is that hat in some museums) and taken out and glued on paper
> > but people think that this remix is new
> > and it has the imprint of an artist
> > and thus we do not need a musical score any more
> > thus we do not need a poetic form any more
> > thus we do not need a language
> > thus we do not need words
>
> Yo. Jarry. Someone already mentioned this.
>
> > there are so many books we can cut up
> > or print from the net
> > and then cut and mix and create
> > creation has become the act of a child at the nursery school
> > it was Pascoli who stated that we still have a child in us
> > and we like to emulate
> > we love dadaists
> > we will repeat forever their action meant to shock
> > armed with powerful scissors
> > in our thoughts
> > in our hands
> > and brushes dripping round drops of glue
> > we love the consistency of it
> > we adore its splash on the paper
> > we are plunged into intermittent sounds
> > we ourselves have created
> > we do not need a language
> > we are against language poetry
>
> I don't love the dadaists. I love tzara.
>
> I vomit on Apollonnaire.
>
> {'nuff sed}
>
> Robin
>
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