On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 08:46 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Is he an Aussie poet, Chris? What do you mean by 'queer poetry'?
Delayed reply... taking advantage of the mild summer weather to do more
studio and still life work.
CAConrad is a US poet connected with Philly Sound.
I used queer because this is what he calls himself. This refers to a
militant anti-sexist, anti-racist and class conscious idea of gay rights
which historically appeared in the early 1990s.
Other then that queer seems to have several meanings. As Foucault wrote;
there are more things in the world then there are words. (One of
Foucault's jokes, he has a very faggy sense of humour. This is perhaps
why those trained in the dreary lecture halls of epistemology still take
such exception to his writings. Epistemology not being the place for
flippant camp humour.)
For myself, Queer Aesthetics, refers to a poetics which is transversal
cutting across which is asymmetrical critique. It can also in more
mainstream use simply mean gay or homosexual.
Deviant propulsions, aside from being a gamble on a small press title
(since I advised Andrew to take such a gamble and decided to take my own
advice) uses various different forms from short lines to lines shaped in
a triangle to prose poetry and is open form which still works as a book.
It also challenges indexical terms if they have not already failed.
Queer also refers to a critical encounter with notions of index... a
book could be written, perhaps more later.
The triangle image doubles with a pink triangle as does the raised
middle finger on the cover which is a pointed sign of homosexuality.
Queer encounters this in complex ways which in the main part are
critical.
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