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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: guerrilla poetics project
Dear Gerald:
Please pass on information about the guerrilla poetics
project
http://guerillapoetics.org
I'm including a brief description from our project
below:
We, the Core Group of the GPP, are a loose knit
association of ten writers
and publishers who have been working in the small
press for a collectively
large number of years. The small press is a publishing
arena filled with
magazines, journals, online publications, 'zines, fold
and staple chapbooks,
poetry, short stories and art all made by so-called
"regular folks;" from
teachers to cooks, from secretaries to strippers, from
cabbies to card
players.
This small press is in direct opposition to the
mentality of our current
cultural climate, both in the mainstream world of
slick televised "reality"
and pop music made by machines with pre-disintegrated
components, easily
sold and easily reproduced ad nauseam, to the large
press of university
magazines staffed by editors publishing grant
recipients, workshop geniuses
and other university magazine editor's obscure verse
designed to puzzle and
stymie the very people poetry is supposed to affect
most.
We here at the GPP believe that poetry is about the
human condition. We
believe poetry is a hoarse cry "against the dying of
the light." We believe
that art in its finest expression is the pure
distillation of what it means
to be human and alive, suffering and dancing up to
the edge of the grave.
And finally, we believe poetry is about
communication: the writer to reader
sure, but more importantly, the human to another
mortal human.
We are putting the world on notice: we are here; we
are writing; and we
want your attention. If you're not willing to give us
your attention, then
we will take it from you. We will be heard. Are you
listening?
Luis C. Berriozabal
Gerald England
New Hope International, Haiku Talk
poetry, reviews, travel photography and more
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/
http://hydedailyphoto.blogspot.com/
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