> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 21:28:23 -0500
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> Google boop sound.
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> >From: jesse <
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> >Sent: Feb 9, 2013 8:16 PM
> >To:
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> >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
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> >There are 3 messages totaling 280 lines in this issue.
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> >Topics of the day:
> >
> > 1. Allen Fisher in London
> >Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:21:12 +0000
> >From: Carol Watts <
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> >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.
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
