Re: FLUXLIST: teenage poetic perspective

2000-04-23 Thread S.E. Nte
I wrote: to have much more power or maybe just a different power. Maybe one is more romantic/idealistic at that stage of life... Heiko wrote: I dont understand what you mean by that or why you write this. A text is a text is a text. Do you think reading is just for teenagers ?

Re: FLUXLIST: teenage rimbaud poetic perspective

2000-04-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
Discovering Rimbaud at age thirteen colored all my teen age years --back then, the barricades of 1968 seemed like Rimbuad's 1870 baricades revisited-- as i got older, thought Rimbaud one of the few truly great poets of childhood-- his poetry is not seperate from "Rimbuad

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry/depersonalization

2000-04-23 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
I don't think one could consider Cage, MacLow or Rothenberg "depersonalized"--they are very distinctive voices. The use of chance is a technique--what changes it from the abitrary or the "meer permutation" is that the elements used for the procedures are CHOSEN by the

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-23 Thread Reed Altemus
AK Thanks for the advice. I will think it over. Dead poets are infinitely preferable to nothing and I hate the idea of an older poet befriending me and being my mentor. So I take yr comments w/a grain of salt. RA ann klefstad wrote: r Well, I do agree with you about Cage. I made the

Re: FLUXLIST: teenage rimbaud poetic perspective

2000-04-23 Thread Reed Altemus
David Baptiste Chirot wrote: Discovering Rimbaud at age thirteen colored all my teen age years --back then, the barricades of 1968 seemed like Rimbuad's 1870 baricades revisited-- as i got older, thought Rimbaud one of the few truly great poets of childhood-- his

Re: FLUXLIST: teenage poetic perspective

2000-04-23 Thread Honoria Starbuck
my son is a teenager. he used to write rap songs, then he got into country music and this was his direct observation. "Mom, it's a lot easier to write rap than country songs." Lucas Starbuck teenager -- From: Reed Altemus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST:

FLUXLIST: http://www.artistsbooks.com/inhoud.htm

2000-04-23 Thread Reed Altemus
A friend sent me this URL. Sure some know of it, but it may interest others who don't know. An artists' books site. RA

Re: FLUXLIST: Fridge Over Troubled Water--Stories and sonics.

2000-04-23 Thread BestPoet
No wonder I can't read fiction anymore. The characters we inherit/invent to live out are so much more interesting. Great story. In a message dated 04/23/2000 12:22:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terrence writes; minidisc is he way i like to go. I carry both recored

Re: FLUXLIST: Poetry

2000-04-23 Thread BestPoet
In a message dated 04/23/2000 12:52:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I think Language poetry, and other poetries that weighted linguistic experimentation heavier than expression, were driven by several things in their historical moment. 1. Lowell et al, all

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-a certain state of being

2000-04-23 Thread Patricia
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Re: FLUXLIST: Proper Vocation

2000-04-23 Thread BestPoet
I find this an amusing Rumi poem about vocations . . . especially his idea of what not to commit . . . not so plausible in our age, I guess . . . especially after the AA virus . . Proper Vocation Nothing occupies us, Sir, save service to that cupbearer; Saki! another round, please

Re: FLUXLIST: teenage rimbaud poetic perspective

2000-04-23 Thread Reed Altemus
Yes, I did read the poem about the colored vowels. I have been coloring my poetry too, if I get motivated I'll send you some. Emmett Williams always envisioned a poetry printed in bright colors and on certain occasions he did just that: attatching rubber stamps making the phrase "when this