Fluxfriends:
i shd correct immediately an error in the address:
it is: http://www.thing.net~grist/homekarl.htm
one approach to making "mnmlst" poems in bob grumman's appellation
is to make "infraverbal poems"--another ot bob's apt coinages
you can start with just one word
S E E
IL NC
or two
w/o
words
wo/ards
or aram saroyan's famous "ligght"
bob's wonderful essay will provide plenty of examples to set the
word wheels turning--
onwo/ards!
dave baptiste
note the same web site has large and excellently edited
presentations of visual poetry, essays on visual and sound poetries,
notations, histories of visual and sound works--
vast reservoir & resource for education & inspiration
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David Baptiste Chirot wrote:
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> I would most highly recommend the great visual poet, essayist and
> publisher Bob Grumman's
> MNMLST POETRY: Unacclaimed but Flourishing
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> at Light and Dust Mobile Anthology of Poetry
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> http://www.thing.net/~grist.homekarl.htm
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> an excellent introduction, history & commentary
> with superb & inspiring examples
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> -dave baptiste chirot
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> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, m. mcdonough wrote:
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> > hello fluxy folk,
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> > i've been trying to write a minimalist poem this week. it's not going so
> > well...i keep trying to think of what the pure experience of a poem would be
> > that would require the least cognitive and aesthetic efforts of the
> > reader...but i keep leaving myself a blank page, a place for words and ideas
> > yet to come...any suggestions for minimalist poetry techniques?
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> > silly silly art ponderances
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> > bunnies and bacon,
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> > megan
> >
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