Doug, I do take your point.
although I would say that reading this story in poem form makes me read it
with LESS focus, or with the type of focus that accompanies any *invented*,
stylised account; so even though they are facts, and are presented in
journalistic language, the form makes me think of it all as Impressions
rather than Events.
KS
2008/12/31 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> It's a found poem, Kasper, &, as such, must pretty well stick to the
> original news story.
>
> I actually found the dry scientific discourse itself frightening enough.
> And what Max has done by breaking it up into a poetic form is to call
> attention to it in a way that reading it in the newspaper cannot do; in the
> still not dead hope that reading a poem invites us to pay attention in a
> more focused manner than reading journalistic prose does.
>
> Just how bad is it, Max?
>
> Doug
> On 30-Dec-08, at 4:58 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
>
> I found this much too drab. as prose, fiction as well as non-, this
>> wouldn't
>> be bad; as a poem it's dry & pointless. maybe I'm missing something. the
>> utter lack of any hint of lyricism makes me feel like I'm wasting my time.
>>
>> and the ending..?
>> is this whole thing supposed to be postmodern somehow? I'm guessing no.
>> not
>> my cuppa, or my idea of poetry.
>>
>> KS
>>
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