That's right up there with "All we need is love," David.
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:42 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> I consider it would be a fine thing, a truly experimental and innovative
> thing, if there were a moratorium on the publication of new poetry for,
> say, five years. Or even just twelve months for a test run. By publication
> I
> mean anything in print, the internet OR read in public. The question of
> private circulation would require some careful deliberation and refinement
> of definition: there are always going to be those who have compulsions to
> share their latest with either their cat, house-plants or mother. Although
> this would probably have to be a voluntary arrangement it would be exciting
> if official support could be won and transgression of the discipline of
> silence could incur a suitable sanction, such as enforced indexing of
> European Community Food Policy laws or public dismemberment joint by joint
> in an art exhibition (while maintained alive for the longest possible
> period
> to endure the even more excruciating pain of the other exhibits).
> The benefits of this temporary trappism of poetry would be immense: all
> those counterfeit versifiers who exist solely to torture their audiences
> through the amplification system of egotism would evanesce and vanish
> quite,
> absolutely and utterly, imagine the global defaltion of wind-bags that
> would ensue, we could probably the energy needs of the Third World with the
> hot air saved, while, as there would be no strictures against
> re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble retrospectives
> and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and fastidiously
> examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other than if
> scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of poets
> to
> what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the page.
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
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