Comments on: Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater and Other Poetic Concerns

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:58:18 +0000

Hey Tyrone,
I also completely concur and I would include your work as part of the “trans-nationalism at the edges.”

By: Tyrone Williams

Tyrone Williams — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:38:43 +0000

I concur completely with your comments even if they are, as you note, an essay toward a more thorough analysis of Toscano’s work. You have identified what I too find compelling and troubling, the reduction and ab absurdum logic of the “voice” to a collective–that is, the way the collective turns out, in its more vulnerable moments, to “be” an assemblage of disembodied voices. Yet, and this is the radical nature of his work, that dynamic (which is not a dialectic) is also the promise of another future, a trans-nationalism at the edges, if not outside, of the consumerist/globalizing markers of identity–and “identity politics” is far too reductionist (and parochial)–with which, in which, we find ourselves, so to speak…
tyrone

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:48:14 +0000

Yes, Toscano is REALLY good.
Kent

By: -w

-w — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:44:15 +0000

Toscano’s multifarious tongue goes Russian when it wants to, I’ve heard, but tri-lingua doesn’t register American as of now… And his overalls HAVE been in the east river.