It's a found poem, Kasper, &, as such, must pretty well stick to the
original news story.
I actually found the dry scientific discourse itself frightening
enough. And what Max has done by breaking it up into a poetic form is
to call attention to it in a way that reading it in the newspaper
cannot do; in the still not dead hope that reading a poem invites us
to pay attention in a more focused manner than reading journalistic
prose does.
Just how bad is it, Max?
Doug
On 30-Dec-08, at 4:58 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
> I found this much too drab. as prose, fiction as well as non-, this
> wouldn't
> be bad; as a poem it's dry & pointless. maybe I'm missing something.
> the
> utter lack of any hint of lyricism makes me feel like I'm wasting my
> time.
>
> and the ending..?
> is this whole thing supposed to be postmodern somehow? I'm guessing
> no. not
> my cuppa, or my idea of poetry.
>
> KS
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