Re: FLUXLIST: mesostic/acrostic/exhaustic etc. - is there a mesoway?

[Rod Stasick]

On 2006 May 21, at 1:55 PM, Allan Revich wrote:   The more I learn, the less I seem to know!   Rod, what do you think? Hahahahaha! Well, yes, I think I may have answered this in my last post. Allan, I think that if you can come up with a unique way of constructing your poems using acrostics, then you can call them whatever you wish. Madawg, for example has called her poems "exhaustics" - which is a clever name - but I don't see anything that particularly sets them apart from acrostics. Maybe if they were somehow constructed in such a way that the outcome would be a steady reduction of her first line idea to an "exhausted" state - a kind of rhopallic verse or syllabic snowball, then it would fit the name more closely. I know that all of this naming *seems* to be a bit anti-Fluxus, but Fluxus was filled with all kinds of ideas that, in order to set them apart, needed names and those names could easily be associated with an activity that may have set it apart from other member's activities. Rod