There are of course alternative views of MacLow and diastics - for example
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/diastic+poetry - I quite like the phrase
'literary sudoku' - but really the end of all this is the land of Gnoetry. I
find it quite interesting that elements in bourgeois US 'poetry culture' is
so keen of wiping out the 'creative', Dryden's 'peaceful province in
acrostic land' has reverberations that arch twister never intended; it's
peculiar too how the questioning of bourgeois subjectivity has ended up
becoming the friend of mechanised culture, although the long appropriation
of the avant-garde by money makes it not too surprising. You start off with
Rimbaud and end up with Warhol. Fear not managers, the poets are your
friends. It's like a kind of huge cultural inhume-you-ment.
On 21 July 2011 04:38, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What fun! Thanks, Barry, for the diastic - a form I've never tried. (And
> clever Doug for spotting it!) I'll have a go when I've stopped with the
> domestics - who ever said retirement was bliss! (Do writers ever retire?)
> Andrew
>
> On 21 July 2011 03:03, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Doug. Actually a diastic, a form invented by Jackson MacLow,
> which
> > I often try to weld to the sonnet. Very difficult to keep in mind the
> > positions of the letters within words during a live talk or during a
> film,
> > but here I had my source interview on the computer screen as I chose
> > language units.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:47 -0600, Douglas Barbour <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >Neatly done, & sneaky indented acrostic, Barry.
> > >
> > >Doug
> > >On 2011-07-20, at 12:08 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> > >
> > >> NAM JUNE PAIK DAY
> > >
> > >Douglas Barbour
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > >http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > >Latest books:
> > >Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > >Wednesdays'
> > >
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> > >
> > >It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will
> seem
> > strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> > inadequacies.
> > >
> > > William H. Gass
> >
>
>
>
> --
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