More Actualists Throw Hats Into Fire |
by Steve Toth |
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Steve Toth weighs in and makes plea for hamburger poem. Not long after, the Actualist flame flares up again! We wll keep you updated under the assumption that ACTUALISM DOESN'T DIE, probably because it's actual. At some point, we might decide to kill it however (again!) because it might using Dave Morice as a means to make the Corpse its mouthpiece! Even actuality can be modified if the editor wants it to (see Plato). So then: ACTUALISM WON'T DIE!
I found a hilarious blog dialog that a website called "MetaFilter" had put on the web soon after the Poetry City Marathon. Here's a sample of it below. I suggest you read the whole thing--it's the equifvalent of about 15 double-spaced pages long. Most of it is a rant against the marathon. At one point, someone who liked Poetry Comics steps in. Here's the beginning of that section... http://www.metafilter.com/100221/and-tapping-my-laptop-with-dots ... Oh holy crap, I know this idiot, "Dr. Alphabet.". I wrote an article about being forcibly subjected to one of his poetry "performances" while I was in elementary school. That article also describes one of his earliest projects, he wrote a poem one mile long. He scribbled on paper rolls from adding machines, and taped them together. Then he unrolled it out in the street and just discarded it where it was. I think of that as sort of being like toilet papering your neighbor's house, except he TPed a mile of the city with lame poetry. I recall reading some of the poem and thinking it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. http://www.metafilter.com/100221/and-tapping-my-laptop-with-dots Wow. Wake up on the wrong side of bed this morning? Those Poetry Comics that rory mentioned were pretty excellent. Yeah, he's a popularizer of poetry. That involves a certain amount of hucksterism, but he's no Tao Lin. posted by msalt at 12:16 PM on February 4, 2011 Oh holy crap again, I read the incoherent "Foreword" to this book, it has that damn 1 mile long stunt poem in it.
What some people call a stunt others might call a feat. When I think of a stunt I think about the last time we moved. When I was a kid & some called you a smart ass you would say I don't see your butt doing any tricks. I say the same thing to this guy. Let the poetry speak for itself. Thou doest protest too much. Steve a month earlier (may 2012) from Steve Toth Hi Everyone, The way I remember it, I was getting into the elevator in the EPB to ride up to class & the two of my classmates jumped aboard. One of them asked me how could I be so foolish as to go against the workshop reading like that. So I explained that isn't the workshop reading always on Thursday & Epstein's on Tuesday? So who is switching to conflict with whom? The guy didn't heard a word I said. He just repeated himself when the elevator door opened. All in all I should have taken the stairs. Dave maybe you could slip in my hamburg inn poem? |
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