I will be sure to have a look at Kaspar Hausar. I downloaded one so far:
Into the Wild Blue Yonder, which I will watch soon.
British poetry minor? Well, I know it has its problems, as does all poetry
these days, but you Brits value literacy and poetry, as a culture, in ways
that have over and over again given the world such a gift. Or is it that
those individuals have emerged not so much _because_ of the culture but
despite it? In that case, let us have more great poetry to spite the nation
and the forces of dullness wherever it thrives. Poetry is like mom. Taken
for granted too often, but right there in tough times. And unlike mom,
dangerously adventurous. Or my mom, anyway, bless her soul.
ja
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Slidvid of Aleph Null stills
> Possibly Herzog is about civilization as a kind of 'fall'. He did have the
> pleasure of coming into the world in 1942 in Nazi Germany. It's curious,
> this conversation, as Herzog throws me back to my twenties, which was when
> he was first on my radar, I remember seeing Kaspar Hausar at the
> Birmingham
> Arts Lab when it came out, and he belonged to a period when it seemed that
> the arts were part of a forward movement in society, even the relatively
> minor case of British poetry seemed to be part of it, and then everything
> went 'phut'. Along came Thatcher and Reagan etc and things have never
> really
> recovered. Rallies here and there but ...
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