by Mickie Kennedy
“[L]inear chronological autobiographical narrative is bullshit,” Ron Silliman, from “Albany.”
“Goal is not to have a goal,” John Cage.
“For modern poetry, since it must be distinguished from classical poetry and from any type of prose, destroys the spontaneously functional nature of language, and leaves standing only its lexical basis,” Roland Barthes, from Writing Degree Zero.
“Narrativity is short-circuited from the moment the reading process is spatialized,” Jerome McGann
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Tags: Bernadette Mayer, Bruce Andrews, charles bernstein, Charles Olson, Clark Coolidge, David Melnick, Gertrude Stein, Jerome McGann, John Ashbery, John Cage, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, language poetry, Leslie Scalapino, Lyn Hejinian, Michael Palmer, projectivist poets, Roland Barthes, Ron Silliman
by Mickie Kennedy
Anthologies are an affordable way to discover new poets, new styles of writing, and sample the work of writers you might not ordinarily encounter. Read more »
Tags: allen ginsberg, amiri baraka, beat poets, Bruce Andrews, charles bernstein, clark strand, diane diprima, Douglas Messerli, gary snyder, gregory corso, haiku, jack kerouac, kobayashi issa, language poetry, lawrence ferlinghetti, matsuo basho, michael mcclure, poetry anthology, Ron Silliman, william s. burroughs, yosa buson, zen buddhist monk