Stephen,
"I'm slightly wounded", like all the diction in both texts, exited Dave Hickey's mouth. So
I'm not wounded at all--I didn't use any "tools" in the revision process. During my
previous attempt to finish the acrostic sonnet, I almost gave up and tried to be satisfied
with one poem mined from the occasion. But today when I looked at the draft, I felt I
could salvage it. On their next public outing, the intuitive sonnet will be followed by the
acrostic sonnet. I think they support each other.
Perhaps your dealer friend can sell his Lichtenstein Mao to an Indian Maoist.
Barry
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:04:47 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I hope this does not 'wound' you, Barry, but I vote the earlier version.
>Hasn't anyone warned you, "Do not use photoshop and/or audioshop
>to revise your poems!!! ? Those devices only make pursuit into an Infinite with no right
answer! Techno body injuries (especially around the upperspine and lowe back) Abound
- i.e., "wound".
>
>Bye the bye a dealer friend of mine has made a bundle selling Pop art (Warhols,
Lichentsteins, Prince, etc.) to collectors in Shanghai. Currently, however, he has a small
Roy Lichenstein work that reproduces, in part, a stock pop image of Mao. No one in
Shaghai will buy it. The anti-maoist politics of 'mainstreet' - one assumes.
>
>The dealer is not bleeding, however.
>
>Stephen
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: SNAP THAT HICKEY AGAIN
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 11:56 AM
>
>TALK DAVE HICKEY [simultaneously]
>
> “I’m slightly wounded”
>
>
>Then I had to go to a formal occasion;
>all issues
>like race horses with provenance,
>kosher thing begins to lose its influence.
>
>Done to you,
>a tough crusty American flag painted
>village, even though ideas mushy and destructive.
>Elevator by yourself.
>
>Hundreds & thousands of artists all deserving of support.
>In this one small aspect America is wrong.
>Complain about it and there’s no way I can imagine [panelists]
>know a work of art if they fell into it.
>Every city has an Elm Street.
>You pay a price for that normalization.
>
>
>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 2-17-10 (2:53 PM)
>
>I attempted to write both an intuitive text and an acrostic sonnet while listening to Dave
>Hickey's lecture "The Evils of Creationism: Art History According to Darwin". Though
>immediately afterwards I felt I had drafted something publishable, I knew the revision
>process would be arduous and wasn't sure both works could be realized. My early
>editorial notes complain of being forced by the needs of the acrostic to choose language
>which was hard to work with while the needs of the intuitive text limited outtakes.
>
>Here's the earlier work, posted 2 weeks ago, for comparison:
>
>TALK DAVE HICKEY
>
>Violate the canons of the culture.
>I won’t want you to go home & tell your friends
>he was bleeding.
>I’m a stone (sharon) . . . I made that up.
>
>Works of art in their idiosyncrasy & outrageousness,
>pioneered by people with a taste for disorientation . . .
>They hate it! I want it!
>Seeking out anxiety is a very un-American thing to do.
>
>Then I had to go to a formal occasion.
>If a church doesn’t teach ethics, it might as well be Toys R Us.
>I was a little bit long--I got discouraged--I was bleeding.
>
>We moved from incredibly ugly to incredibly silly.
>I don’t think that what lives on the street is the best,
>but it’s the strongest.
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