Genre(s): Experimental Period: 1960s to the present Lines: (from The Crystal Text)
As electricity is homeless. Continental baseless.
Bones to a radiant inner. Coaxless stocking
the brittle tone, sash of stone without a cord.
You leave me out in weathers, the languages,
the footless mounts. … Read more »
“[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
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