Yes, however the quote: "But frankly, they could read their grocery lists
and I’d still hang on their every word, every breath, every squirming
movement during their vulnerable, resistant build to orgasm." opens the
begged question - it doesn't matter what they're reading. Although if some
content were chosen it certainly would - can you imagine say poetry from
the trenches of world war one being treated like that? or say passages from
the Diary of Anne Frank or the Gulag archipelago? I use those as obvious
examples tied to historical atrocities. If it were related to specific
texts with cause it be one thing (and the Whitman could be a candidate) but
as the aim is so apparently generalised the effect is just that of very
soft porn.
Of course, if poetry is a cultural consumable commodity only then very soft
porn is possibly an apt description of the art. How about Celan's
'Todesfugue' being given the treatment? For myself, at least, I recommend
the right of refusal, like breath.
On 25 August 2012 22:04, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHt4IEyYuyQ
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> 11m41s of it
>
> alerted to this by
>
> http://www.salon.com/2012/08/24/turning_orgasm_into_art/?source=newsletter
>
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