I would love to attend Allen Fisher's events, if only to ask him the meaning
of some of the most arresting lines in linguistically innovative poetry in
Britain or in the world:
From CAKEWALK, a poem from his sequence CIVIC PRIDE:
"Sailing on a mirror
with birds in front of him
he scans for a
boop tone
to check his idealism and its concomitant
realistic aesthetic"
I particularly treasure
he scans for a
boop tone
and would love to hear him intone it, for surely these lines deserve a grand
delivery. And what exactly is a boop tone and why again is this gentleman
scanning for it? These lines deserve a battery of footnotes, and perhaps
some commentary from the members of this list..
Jess
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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:21:12 +0000
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Subject: Allen Fisher in London
With apologies for cross posting! All welcome! with best wishes. Carol
Allen Fisher: Connected Events
event one: 7.30pm, Thursday, 14th February, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics
Clore Management Building: Room G01, Torrington square.
Testing & Experimenting.
Testing & Experimenting, the event sets out to review the sequence of Allen
Fisher’s Complexity Manifold talks (2006-2011), followed by a brief
application of the result from the review using examples from fourteen
English poems published in the last five years and a concluding coda: the
governance of the self and others.
event two: Thursday, 28th March, Royal Holloway, Central London
venue tbc
Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit.
Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit, a synthesis with an underlying theme of
facture and æsthetic reception. Eventually the subject includes how meaning
might be achieved by slow accretions and lead to aspects of truth telling.
This subject is skewed by the poetics, confronted with the contradiction of
the world as it is understood to be and the changing proposals for a
different world.
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