Stephen, I like your take on what appears to be a bountiful offering of
work. Thanks for it! Sheila
On Feb 11, 2008 7:42 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://www.critiphoria.org/Issue1.html
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> Of the many critical pieces in critiphoria - of which I only have read a
> few so far - I just wanted to put in a good cheer for this enterprise.
> Delightful work by Norman Fisher. Rachel Blau du Plessix and Nick Piombino,
> each variously trying to locate the position, function and capability of the
> 'word' - interesting to me in a time when 'we be' flush with so many words,
> so much of which are unmoored to anything but the agenda of some either
> demonic or self-serving 'other'.
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> But whatever one's sense of need, Critiphoria also fills a gap by pulling
> together many strands of thought/analysis under the embarace of one
> umbrella. Tho I don't find the essays intentionally 'academic' in any
> "going for tenure" sense, for those of us who are counter-marginal in some
> larger sense, it's nice to be able to go to a broad horizon, wander around
> and benefit from the shade of 'multiple trees'. I suggest, go there.
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> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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