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June 23: Yesterday, Nico Vassilakis post the following to Spidertangle: "i was responding to a friend's post yesterday about NON-POETICS (below) and was defending vispo as a pre or post literature event - not literature at all. i wonder what your take is on that?"
Naturally, I had to jump in with my boilerplate: "My problem with it is that it seems a needless multiplication of categories. Why not call .vispo' without aesthetically meaningful words a form of visual art, and 'vispo' with aesthetically meaningful words a form of literature? And if you want a little village of word and graphic art between the country of literature and the country of visual art, why call it 'poetry?' Call it 'picliture' or something that names rather than misnames it."
According to Laura Riding, in her Non-Poetics, which Nico's post quotes a lot of, "A poem is nothing."
Is a strawberry also nothing? If not, what is it, and what makes it something that a poem lacks? I stop here with NON-POETICS. Riding seems to me a philogusher--fih LAH guh shur. Her cerebral word-center was not connected to her cerebral sensory-data center.
Urp.
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