Barry I tried to meta-ekphrasticize VB but he bit me(him being much
photographed written about etc -still I tried
VB
He
Bit
Me
Owzat!!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Barry Alpert
Sent: 28 May 2008 15:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Newsflash
SSP,
It should be a familiar process to a superb surfer such as yourself. Also,
consider any snapshots
responding to particular photographs, paintings, films . . . Or Homer's
shield. And the best-
known example: Keats' urn. Then there's the "meta-ekphrastic", which I
attempted to define in
postscripts to some of my snapshots. One of the lawyers with whom I
occasionally collaborate
cited "ekphrastic writing" as a description of my writing likely to "excite"
more possibilities in the
current cultural climate than simply "poetry".
BSA
On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:04:48 +0100, Patrick McManus
<[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Not exactly an easy word to find in the dictionaries!!
>P :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Nathan Hondros
>Sent: 28 May 2008 01:59
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Newsflash
>
>"Ekphrastic". What a wonderful word. Thanks, Barry.
>
>On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> Nevertheless. when I witnessed Michael Palmer consistently using
>"vanguard"
>> during his Lannan
>> Foundation / Georgetown University seminar presentation, it sounded so
odd
>> coming from an
>> american's mouth that I asked a public question about his choice of
>> diction. Since 1977 I've used
>> "Vanguard Phenomena" as an umbrella term (on the door of my rare book,
>art,
>> & vinyl shop in
>> Georgetown and on eBay, for example), and I enjoy the varied responses to
>> it--most often, "You
>> specialize in science fiction?" Am awaiting reaction to my newly-revised
>> formulation "Vanguard &
>> Ekphrastic Phenomena".
>>
>> Barry Alpert
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 May 2008 16:41:50 +0100, David Bircumshaw <
>> [log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >'In 1888 the O.E.D said that 'avant-garde' had been replaced by the
>> >aphetic form 'vanguard', and had become archaic or obsolete. The 1933
>> >Supp. did not disturb this view.'
>> >
>> >Fowler (revised Gowers) 1965.
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