OK. Visual media--paint, canvas, film, granite, holograms, etc. The medium of poetry is words. Not hard. You probably know that. As for the other, horse around if you like. But it will be a solo act.
If you find Kenny's stuff useful, great. Do wonderful things with what you l;earn from it. Not useful for me.
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>From: jim andrews <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Nov 7, 2014 6:36 PM
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>Subject: Re: Conceptual poet in Playboy
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>What don’t you think is true? That poetry is broadening?
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>Visual art is not a medium, by the way. Neither is poetry.
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>ja
>http://vispo.com
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>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I should add that I don't think this is true, not even of "this" broadening, much less than all the others, which is why this version of conceptualism is greeted primarily with yawns. Writing and visual art broaden within the limits imposed by their media. Those limits are flexible--there are lots of writers who've used the page as a pictorial space and words and letters as visual elements, and there are visual artists who incorporate words and even poems, but the core of each medium remains distinct, which gives the experience of crossing the boundaries much of its meaning. There are certainly things that haven't been done. We've yet to try pointilism in poetry, for instance, tho it would take a rather brutal redefinition of the term to make it possible to do so.
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>>>> ‘Visual art’ has put up less resistance about this broadening of itself than has ‘poetry’ about the broadening of ‘poetry’.
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