Because the social world of power that I experience is complex, though brutal in its simplicity; incoherent, though authoritarian; inimical to psychological need though ready to gratify base drives.Or words to that effect.DaveOn 4 September 2018 at 15:19, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:So why are you using surrealist techniques? For complexity, incoherence, psychological needs?LukeI've had extensive dealings with Yodel and its complaints service lately and would suggest that it covers both post-surrealism and devices meaningfully combining into incoherence very nicely indeedy-deed.DaveOn 4 September 2018 at 11:56, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Ok so what I'm working with is: devices meaningfully combining into incoherence.A very good example of that meaningfulness would be any parody of closure... but it works with e.g. Imagism, I think, too; a collage that makes no literal sense but is still meaningfulLukesounds like a good thing!LukeI tend to describe myself in general as a post-surrealist, or at least I prefer that to some other things I get called - the problem is it is a very wide ranging 'post'On 4 Sep 2018, at 10:09, Luke wrote:Sorry, a little drunk there...
I'm trying to find a starting point from which to say a poem works, rather than does something I like or feel I should. A specific type of 'verisimilitude', does that make sense?
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