Yes, it's like moving electrodes across the neural networking of the
world...
- Alan
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, 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
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Lowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2006 10:06 pm
Subject: essay critical of google/poetry
essay in jacket magazine, targets flarf and other "google-sculpting"
poetry techniques. might be of interest to some here. i'm still
mulling over some of the arguments & would be curious to hear what
anyone on this list thinks about the piece.
http://jacketmagazine.com/29/hoy-flarf.html
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