Then I unnecessarily explained myself because you said you didn’t! I’m suggesting that moving these counters around the board might be an academic pastime but I can’t see the activity as generating poems of any interest. Just my opinion.JamieI know what you meant. They're not abstract entities, that's all I meant.LukeOn 2 May 2018 at 13:59, Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:I mean the ‘modes’ that you parenthesised in that sentence - conceptual, popular, avant.JamieSent from my iPadAbstract terms =/= entities, not sure what you mean by that. I mean, whatever though.Cheers,LukeOn 2 May 2018 at 13:55, Jamie McKendrick <00001ae26018af73-dmarc-[log in to unmask] > wrote:Or conversely, irrespective of the ‘tensions between modes (conceptual, popular, avant) things (i.e. poetry) will still happen and develop’.
I can’t really believe that these abstract entities are in the least bit necessary for generating poems.
Jamie
> On 2 May 2018, at 02:01, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I mean 'the future of poetry' doesn't have to be a thing, as long as there are still tensions between modes (conceptual, popular, avant) things will still happen and develop, etc.. It's the soggy undifferentiated mess that would disappoint.
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> Luke