See Josh Corey's discussion of the "post-mainstream" (along with pictures of
his new baby here<http://joshcorey.blogspot.com/2008/02/post-mainstream.html>.
I think his analysis cuts through a lot of crap.
Re: Textsound. Loved the Linh Dinh reading of three poems. Splendid!
jd
On Feb 12, 2008 12:36 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It must be Cindy!!
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> From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 February 2008 17:26
> To: 'Stephen Philip Pain'
> Subject: RE: check out textsound.org out now - and a little comment on
> mainstream
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> I found textsound! But did not know who was your partner there –men det a
> morsomt at hør nogen Dansk
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> Skål Patrick
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> From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Philip Pain
> Sent: 12 February 2008 13:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: check out textsound.org out now - and a little comment on
> mainstream
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>
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> Well sometimes, especially when one's partner is involved, one feels a
> call
> to join the rest and say, check out or buy this. For Cindy's sake - you
> will
> find her poetry and other Danish sound poetry at textsound.org.
>
>
> My goodness, if there is anything to make the hair on the necks of those
> on
> the list stand up to full attention, it is the word "mainstream" ,
> followed
> by "camps". We had this discussion in the 1990's, and probably before. All
> turns on publishing, whether you want to do a turn on the catwalk and say,
> look at me, and whether anyone will put in a bid for your poetry. All old
> hat. I can not really take the discussion seriously, because even if we
> take
> sides, with a sad inevitability, we will cross-over, transgress, join,
> leave
> and so on. I think it is a question of writing - that is it. We can of
> course throw stones at the establishment - like Natalie Cole being pissed
> off with Amy Winehouse. Remember that the capitalists talk of
> cross-border,
> transnational, and without losing the strengthes of the home market. Says
> muggins in Denmark...
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> Stephen Philip Pain, MPhil
> www.biorhetorics.1go.dk
> kongensgade 15 1-sal,
> 5000 Odense C.
> Denmark.
> Tel: +45 66 12 06 22
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Joseph Duemer
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