> It sounds like a moving performance, indeed, Dave, & worthwhile too....
>
> Can you say a bit more about how they raised questions about the claims
> of performance poetry?
>
> Doug
I'm tempted to say Noooooo! But, footstuck in wordmud, it goes something
like this: an impression can be derived from the performance versus page
poetry antithesis that there is a something that the page fails to deliver
that performance does. What came to mind from the mental health survivors
was that, yes, there is a validity of performance, of
being-in-the-world-authenticity, that rejects negation, and is beautiful.
But the performance poetry pyramid, which is just as status driven as the
old style literati, is really vying for the same ground as 'high literary'
culture in social terms, though not intellectual. It pretends not to be
literary while subfuscly being so.
These are terrible generalisations, and there are so many exceptions, and
I'm sure I've made a mess of this, but notice my foot now free from the mud
and stuck instead in my mouth ....
ggg... nnn...hrrppahpppa
Best
dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry, Performance, Therapy
> It sounds like a moving performance, indeed, Dave, & worthwhile too....
>
> Can you say a bit more about how they raised questions about the claims
> of performance poetry?
>
> Doug
> On 27-Jan-06, at 12:11 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > But we also have the duality (war at times) between poetry as
> > performance and poetry as literature of the page and it was
> > interesting to reflect that these poets' performances were just as
> > good as you often get at performance events, if anything, rather than
> > raising questions about literary poetry they raised queries at the
> > claims of performance poetry.
> Douglas Barbour
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