Don’t see why Luke couldn’t just send the thing and people will read it or not, comment on all of it or bits of it or not at all. It’s an open space, There doesn’t necessarily have to be a “discussion”. Such a subject is likely to stir up bees in the bonnet of course, but so what.
Myself, I’d give anything to see a straight account, with examples followed through from text to experience, of how any of these versions of experimental poetry helps anyone to know the world better, to improve their understanding, to contribute to a strong moral position or are in some way good for us. I feel I have been waiting 40 years for this. I mean this, I’m not being facetious.
I would say that Luke’s list of poets seems to me to be of poets closely bound together in basic agreed principles or procedures, and I don’t see how through these you can arrive at a position concerning the value of poetry as such. Even with the aid of theory I don’t see that, but i would never trust theory as a way in to poetry anyway.
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