JOHN BENNETT wrote:
The thing to do is to play around with these techniques in order to learn a
kind of diction.
and then to write directly out of your head in that diction.
this creates not only real "poetry" (or whatever) but truly changes the
language (or changes it more or in directions you have directed to some extent)
john
this is what I've been doing with these techniques, messing around and
changing my ear. and I can't believe anyone thinks flarfists don't
manipulate mightily. it is very much assemblage (or collage), just the
use of found things (however much you want to think of the search method
as directed or limiting, but that just puts the writer back in the
driver's seat). when I've done a Google search I've ended up with this
lump of language which needs much paring and shifting. I won't say I'm
proficient at this, but I think I've made works I can call 'mine'. at
any rate, I was a little surprised by the moral tone of the Jacket
piece, an old-fashioned sort of reflex. at further any rate, I've liked
reading the commentary posted here. for that matter, jlo did a close
reading of a flarf poem on Lucipo that was methodical and thoughtful, a
nice piece of reception.
