Some info on stylistic influences on his 2017 book, ‘Synaptic Syntactic’, particularly a book by Juliana Spahr called Well Then There NOw. The characters’ names of ‘We all the Small Ones’ and ‘Demonoid Picotent’ were derived from Spahr’s work. Talk on the use of repetition and distorting texts using machine translations.
Tag: academia
Fascinating Account
http://tribalephemeral.tumblr.com/post/133104586811/a-long-post-about-art-history-get-out-while-u Fascinating account of the collision between what is real in the now and dried up narrow minded academia. I wonder if that really happened? (Surely it must have)
Poetry Isn’t as Useless as a Lot of Poets Say It Is
Poetry Isn’t as Useless as a Lot of Poets Say It Is A recent speech at Yale inadvertently sums up what’s wrong with the art form these days: Its gatekeepers believe poetry matters because it’s poetry, not because of what it says. NOAH BERLATSKYSEP 12 2013, 7:30 AM ET