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 Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ----- 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 > >
