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Hi Nieuwland this seems like a snap -hope day cheers up Patrick


I guess I, 
in turn, am 
just allowing 
my unusually 
crappy morning 
to break me out 
of my usual list
-lurking self.

For NJ



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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of nieuwland jeroen
Sent: 14 September 2010 10:09
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: pain piss off....

 I do agree that all kinds of factors come into play when writing, including

one's physical state and environment. Pierre Joris also talks about this in 
Nomad Poetics, and I was recently getting into Timothy Morton's Ecological 
approach to literature, where he is also constantly stressing the ways a
poem 
takes up space and influences and is influenced by its environment. (He has
a 
great short lecture about his concept of Mesh to describe the
interconnectedness 
of things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mWCPa9y3c  ). 

I guess I just find it curious that if your physical condition is an
integral 
part of your poetics, why you don't then, for example, elaborate more on the

connection between those two - so how your chronic fatigue syndrome affects
your 
poetics, and how your poetics affect your chronic fatigue syndrome. Or maybe
the 
very fact of sharing these things is part of your poetics? 

But all this is making it sound like I fundamentally have a problem with it
and 
I really do not. By all means please keep on keeping on as you were. Last
thing 
I would want is to sound normative/judgemental in any way.  I guess I, in
turn, 
am just allowing my unusually crappy morning to break me out of my usual 
list-lurking self. 

All good things,
Jeroen





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From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 10:50:22 AM
Subject: Re: pain piss off....

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 01:20 -0700, nieuwland jeroen wrote:
> do wonder however, why you keep 
> feeling the need to keep updating the members of this poetics list
> about your 
> medical condition 

Patrick said it also; this is one of the essential aspects of poetics.
(Read Silvin Tomkins for more info.)

-- 
have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird

just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.

Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/