I'm all for fragmented audiences, guys--even more fragmented than
now. I don't even know what "our generation" means in this (or
maybe any) context now.
Hal
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On Apr 23, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Or maybe something like Neil Young's upcoming CD.
>
> But the audience, & not just for poetry, is so fragmented now that
> maybe it can't happen for that reason alone...
>
> Doug
> On 23-Apr-06, at 5:18 AM, Ian Irvine wrote:
>
>> Given the changes to the mass media we might find that our
>> generation's 'Howl' presents itself in an unexpected form -
>> perhaps one of those 'e-cards' (poetry/image as per Vallum online)
>> that do the rounds ... like those dreadful 'half eaten chocolate
>> bunny' pic I I received last week - and from diverse international
>> senders. A Flash protest poem/or song that says it all and people
>> email to their friends? Or perhaps it will take the form of a
>> 'fluxus' style online poetry 'event' tapped into by people/poets/
>> artists etc. all over the world who are concerned about Neo-
>> Liberal/Neo-Con attempts at species/interspecies meltdown ... and
>> rippling out over communication channels ... Or a Documentary like
>> the Aussie one on US soldiers and their musical tastes.
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> Is that the flesh made word
> or is that the flesh-made word?
>
> Fred Wah
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