Cris asked how my experience with Batmemes had/had affected my response to
to MacLow or Coolidge and whether I had more or less respect for their
writing.
My response is that I'm always interested in different types of slippage
either away from signification/referentiality or between different sorts of
signification or referentiality. Coolidge is sometimes too extreme for my
taste - I'm more of a Berrigan fan when it comes to the so-called New York
poets - but I do think that MacLow's work is very fine, particularly the
stuff in the big Norton Postmodern American Poetry antho.
I think Batmemes is useful but I think I prefer to be in control of the
system or game used for randomising more than the program seems to allow.
However, it does generate some really interesting stuff which gets the
imagination ready to travel further.
Best wishes,
David
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