Strange that everyone left. It sounds a bit like poetic justice though he is
more a joker. my mind is so warped by the once-contemporary of performance
art (let's please know when to stop performance artists please--we have
poets to do this--does anyone agree? i do--but with myself--we are
schizophrenically well-suited for long afternoons in imaginary locations)
Back to John Yau: I might easily believe his not showing up was a type of
performance piece but then again I don't get a lot of sleep and I fear too
many bread cells are dead. As I re-read this (as you can see, I replaced the
word brain with bread which is indication that i now am more concerned with
caloric input than mental output although i am not old i keep repeating with
each candle of my non-cake for i do not bake nor do i partake in any
celebrate save for everyday laundry
Catherine, are you afraid to be on those panels? I am truly serious.
I think i would be terrified.
i know so little.
mostly i question the introverted vs. the extroverted artist. of course, on
the internet there is a strange combination or a type of experimentation for
introverts.
before the internet, i thought artists were introverts. now i see i am very
wrong and that my introversion has caused errors in all directions.
any of you could easily take a stab and i'd deflate as the lowest of the
low: someone who wrote before she read.
I could only be a panelist on how to remain an amateur. no one at awp would
accept me as has been proven already according to me. I actually believe
this is an important issue and now wish I had proposed it. "the importance
of amateur poets or maintaining the attitude of an amateur even were one to
possess supposed fame"
No. It never proves he's great. (oh, yes, this is about John Yau, isn't it?)
What is proven is he hates Mary Oliver and gives little warning on missing
panels.
I don't know what panel I would listen to other than a bernadette meyer type
exercise panel of alternative ways to invade cut ups or else someone to
explain to me what alan sondheim is doing.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Catherine Daly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John Yau didn't attend a panel I put together for AWP Vancouver, and
> someone
> else who was supposed to be on it, too, and even though Susan Wheeler,
> Therese Bachand and I were still there, as soon as I said "John Yau will
> not
> be with us today," everybody left.
>
> Doesn't affect that I think he's great, just wish he's given me some
> warning
> to find another panelist.
>
> --
> All best,
> Catherine Daly
> [log in to unmask]
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