On [Sat, 16 Oct 1999 09:12:05 +0000]
Alaric Sumner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
[much interesting stuff <snipped!>]
>> Writers need readers not consumers/clients/purchasers.
does the poetry machine plug into the real world machine? the poem as text
is often arcane, "difficult", even "repellant", asking more than many
people want or are able to give.
when the poem as text doesn't "sing", as billy put it recently, is it
because it has "forgotten" the body? do we care? the poem as text will
always tend to drift towards the "cerebral" (what else can it do?).
is it not possible that in a culture in which text is commonly and
increasingly just a "layer"/not central/just "an element", poets might
come to be perceived as (gifted) oddballs, nerds, their output as
incomprehensible as unix humour to the world of the windows user?
as someone said recently, in a discussion on "art", on another list:
>> Who cares if you get it? They think it's great.
regards,
steve
"There's a South Pole," said Christoper Robin, "and I expect there's an
East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them."
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