A fine and spirited response, thank you, Dan. > I don't know that I'm the best person on this list to respond to this, > but I do think it asks for a response, and I'm not sure anyone else > will, so I'll take a whack at it.
But I also sorta like Alex's post. It engages with the work, for one thing. For another thing, it reminds me of poetry in the use of language. And it brought up some thoughts such as - Can criticism be poetry? What is the role of criticism in new/experimental writing? What would experimental criticism, as a counterpart to experimental writing, look like? Should criticism be more like call&response in form? Is criticism collaboration? Experimental writing doesn't mean there aren't differences of opinion or taste after all. CatherinE > >> There's no spirit in anything I see, here. It's so >> detached, one might say, that its minutia. It could >> have been made by something other than a man, and yet >> the reader still pleads to belong to some form of >> human connection. Seems disagreeable, something I >> gotta ask myself, and I don't have the answer, but >> seems to me only poets should write poems, reclaiming >> that thousand-year-old tree. >> >> AJ >> >> >> >> --- BjørnMagnhildøen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> G >>> >>> >>> T >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> why did Nansen cross Greenland? >>> he wanted to show it was possible >>> >>> why didn't he succeed? >>> because he wanted to show it was possible >>> >>> are the raindrops one thing or several? >>> are all numbers multiples? >>> >>> how will you proceed from now? >>> all the chairs ruin your back >>> >>> >>> P >>> >>> >>> where will you go? >>> i want to be a crow >>> >>> where will the crow go? >>> don't try to imagine >>> >>> what about imagination? >>> another romance >>> >>> what about love? >>> how did the chicken cross the road? >>> t Zk5 >>> Zk5 >>> M >>> M >>> k >>> u >>> >>> x U >>> S >>> >>> what about the road? >>> it continues in each step >>> >>> what steps can there be? >>> did you ask me a question? >>> >>> what will remain? >>> look, the door opened by itself >>> >>> wouldn't you say it was the wind? >>> so where does the wind remain? >>> >>> isn't the weather getting worse all over? >>> everything is getting worse all over >>> >>> lpXhoj >>> w e c >>> an r >>> 7 l >>> and >>> y >>> >>> >>> isn't that depressing? >>> not the least >>> >>> what would you call depressing? >>> imagination >>> >>> have you no pity for the world? >>> just imagine >>> >>> what's reality? >>> where are we now? >>> >>> don't you negate reality with all this? >>> where is reality when you sleep? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> W 1 >>> PG+QV4P >>> PG+QV4P >>> 5aXQtJ7W1 >>> >>> who is sleeping? >>> your unborn brother is sleeping >>> >>> isn't that imagination? >>> isn't that reality? >>> >>> then what is unreal? >>> you were talking about raindrops >>> >>> aren't you stuck here? >>> then why should you ask? >>> >>> T >>> >>> >>> i'm kicking you loose >>> aren't you stuck here? >>> >>> why did the chicken cross the road? >>> because it was stuck >>> >>> did the chicken have imagination? >>> try to imagine >>> >>> what about politics? >>> on which side of the road? >>> >>> what about the road? >>> already answered that >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> X >>> O >>> z d >>> >>> are you stuck here? >>> already answered that >>> >>> do you think i approve of this? >>> try to imagine >>> >>> what's the shortest way from a to b? >>> it's the same place >>> >>> then why did the chicken cross the road? >>> because it was stuck >>> >>> then why do you continue to answer? >>> because of my jovial nature >>> >>> what do you mean by jovial nature? >>> >>> Zv >>> >>> >>> AVxlsMw55 >>> how do you think humans evolved? >>> >>> then how did humans evolve? >>> by their good nature >>> >>> isn't that another excursion? >>> try to imagine >>> >>> what do you mean by nature? >>> excursion >>> >>> >>> kI 3. >>> what do you mean by good? >>> little by little >>> >>> then what is evil? >>> too much by too much >>> >>> and what is jovial? >>> a little chicken >>> >>> don't we eat chickens? >>> out of our good nature >>> >>> how come? >>> how do you think it crossed the road? >>> >>> because it was stuck? >>> we eat what is stucked >>> >>> how come? >>> what else can you eat? >>> >>> does the answer eat the question? >>> on which side are you? >>> >>> what is the road? >>> have you already eaten? >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >
