Comments on: The Name Game

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:32:31 +0000

Personally, I find big red dogs a sentimental gimmick to get someone’s pet on a poetry blog. I would add them to the list.

By: Henry Gould

Henry Gould — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:56:56 +0000

If Lacan is controversially non-controversial, well, this sounds very much like a Lacanian impasse, comme on dit. Alors, je pense que c’est necessaire d’ecrire une liste seulement pour Lacan, une liste des bouleversements Lacaniens tout-seule, comme on dit. Le noude integrale d’un “petit a”, comme on dit, ou “petit oeuil”, ou possiblement un “petit oeuf” – voici certainement la faiblesse des problemes psycho-litteraire, comme on dit, ou tous les hommes et un nombre innumerable des femmes trouvent leurs “identities pseudo-ecrives”, comme on dit.
Eh?

By: Don Share

Don Share — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:32:53 +0000

I think the idea is that just mentioning Lacan automatically makes him controversial – which just happened.
On the list he goes!

By: Vijay Chaudhoury

Vijay Chaudhoury — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:54 +0000

Wait, is Lacan controversial around here? Have their been Lacan debates that I’ve missed? Gyp! (No offense to my Magyar friends).

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:09:19 +0000

Amiri Baraka

By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:25:45 +0000

Gordon? Mohammad? Little?

By: Doodle

Doodle — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:22:45 +0000

controversial:
Zizek & Lacan (sounds like Siskel & Ebert!)
non-con:
Lana Turner (get up, we love you!)
mimeographed journals
ekphrasis

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:01:11 +0000

And since Language Poetry is mentioned:
Coming from an all-night soiree in celebration of some group-written memoir, Mme. Hejinian was most fortunate to escape with but a broken pelvis and a hefty fine: Trainspotting on the BART.

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:53:45 +0000

And since Flarf is mentioned:
The little urchins Gordon and Mohammad, of Nangis, hid behind a curtain, making loud farting sounds with the pits of their arms. Just as Mme. Lauterbach was beginning to read! The Vice-Chancellor of the Sorbonne led them out by the ears.

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:25 +0000

Ron Silliman is mentioned above, in Don’s list. Here is his fait divers:
“Yes, it is true, Your Honor, that I am obsessed with Project Runway, but it was only part of a performance project,” said M. Silliman, with earnest sincerity. Three months in jail and suspended blogging license for shoplifting at Victoria’s Secret.