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I remember seeing Charles Bernstein write about a poetics for America, and I'm thinking which America? North? South? On 9/10/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Well, as Hal pointed out, Bowering was the first (to my knowledge > anyway) to use USAmerican, rather than American, to simply state a fact > about US citizens; speaking as another 'American,' living as he does in > Canada, a part of the Americas. > > Seems useful enough to me... > > And certainly isn't a term of abuse (or not necessarily <g>). > > Doug > On 10-Sep-07, at 9:58 AM, Peter Cudmore wrote: > > > The thing is not to find convenient terms of abuse, but simply a > > precise yet > > concise way of speaking. 'American' fits the bill for concision, but > > not for > > precision. > > > > How does Bowering deal with this? > Douglas Barbour > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > People say they have to express their emotions. > I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach > you to express your emotions; > it teaches you how to see. > > Berenice Abbott > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." Roman Proverb