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I suppose Betty Boop might continue the dance references as well. Sent from my iPad On 10 Feb 2013, at 09:50, "Peter Hughes" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > may be a bit of sonar in there, literally & metaphorically - out go these sound signals, let's see what happens when they come back in off the world... > > > > > Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 21:28:23 -0500 > > From: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: Allen Fisher's boop tone > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Google boop sound. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > >From: jesse <[log in to unmask]> > > >Sent: Feb 9, 2013 8:16 PM > > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Subject: Allen Fisher's boop tone > > > > > >I would love to attend Allen Fisher's events, if only to ask him the meaning > > >of some of the most arresting lines in linguistically innovative poetry in > > >Britain or in the world: > > > > > >From CAKEWALK, a poem from his sequence CIVIC PRIDE: > > > > > >"Sailing on a mirror > > >with birds in front of him > > >he scans for a > > >boop tone > > >to check his idealism and its concomitant > > >realistic aesthetic" > > > > > >I particularly treasure > > > > > >he scans for a > > >boop tone > > > > > >and would love to hear him intone it, for surely these lines deserve a grand > > >delivery. And what exactly is a boop tone and why again is this gentleman > > >scanning for it? These lines deserve a battery of footnotes, and perhaps > > >some commentary from the members of this list.. > > > > > >Jess > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "BRITISH-IRISH-POETS automatic digest system" > > ><[log in to unmask]> > > >To: <[log in to unmask]> > > >Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:00 AM > > >Subject: BRITISH-IRISH-POETS Digest - 8 Feb 2013 to 9 Feb 2013 (#2013-26) > > > > > > > > >There are 3 messages totaling 280 lines in this issue. > > > > > >Topics of the day: > > > > > > 1. Allen Fisher in London > > >Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:21:12 +0000 > > >From: Carol Watts <[log in to unmask]> > > >Subject: Allen Fisher in London > > > > > >With apologies for cross posting! All welcome! with best wishes. Carol > > > > > >Allen Fisher: Connected Events > > > > > >event one: 7.30pm, Thursday, 14th February, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics > > >Clore Management Building: Room G01, Torrington square. > > > > > > Testing & Experimenting. > > > > > >Testing & Experimenting, the event sets out to review the sequence of Allen > > >Fisher’s Complexity Manifold talks (2006-2011), followed by a brief > > >application of the result from the review using examples from fourteen > > >English poems published in the last five years and a concluding coda: the > > >governance of the self and others. > > > > > > > > >event two: Thursday, 28th March, Royal Holloway, Central London > > >venue tbc > > > > > > Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit. > > > > > >Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit, a synthesis with an underlying theme of > > >facture and æsthetic reception. Eventually the subject includes how meaning > > >might be achieved by slow accretions and lead to aspects of truth telling. > > >This subject is skewed by the poetics, confronted with the contradiction of > > >the world as it is understood to be and the changing proposals for a > > >different world. > > > > > > > > >------------------------------