Mark, I don't think he's criticising experimentation as such. He seems more concerned with various writing practices (heavily formed by, and dependent on, ideas of “poetics”) as being regarded as aesthetic acts in themselves, with the poems (or texts) produced by these practices subordinate to the practice itself. I am forced to agree with him, here. I think he has a point. For me, the act of writing is not as important as the end product. I don’t see the necessity for an insistence that poetics can only have significance if it revolves around “the act of making”.
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I don't think that anything could frighten Adam into silence.
He's not just talking about knee-jerk experimentalism--he's coming from a very mainstream position.
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