David Kennedy (Hi David) writes
>I think my own taste is to go for the camp as
>opposed to the crunchy.
as an advocacy of the Batmemes results in preference
to syntactical motilities I'd suggested was present in
Coolidge (particularly early Coolidge) and MacLOw. Although
they were only a couple of examples.
I am curious about the opposition proposed between 'camp' and 'crunchy'.
It's quite likely that the terms will immdeiately mutate into less easily
binary models. But, just to tug the conversation out a tad, surely they
aren't mutually exclusive? (Gertrude Stein, Charles Bernstein, Allen Fisher)
Mostly it makes me wonder about 'camp' versus 'crunchy' in terms of
how they might delineate 'seriousness' or circumscribe received literary
sensibilities. That the 'camp' might appear more socially acceptable and
less immediately of threat than the 'crunchy'. That the crunchy might imply
violence done to concensual sensibility, whereas the camp might be more a
seduction of dominant syntax.
That 'camp' might have more dominant currency than 'crunchy', more 'value',
be more open to circulation?
just curious about what might be driving the fashioning of such a distinction?
love and love
cris
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