Comments on: All Avant-Garde All The Time: The Sounds of The UK http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:29:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Iain http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-20711 Iain Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:13:28 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-20711 Oh come one Kent, don't pretend you wouldn't be tempted to post a picture of your butt if you were a Harriet blogger. I mean, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/09/o-literati-get-up/" rel="nofollow">it's practically a tradition</a>. Come one everyone, butt posts all around. Oh come one Kent, don’t pretend you wouldn’t be tempted to post a picture of your butt if you were a Harriet blogger. I mean, it’s practically a tradition.

Come one everyone, butt posts all around.

]]> By: Kent Johnson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-20269 Kent Johnson Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:22:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-20269 "Slow Poetry: Recipe for a New Avant-Garde?" Well, the first paragraph of the article concludes with this jaw-dropper of a claim: "Flarf has laid claim to the critique of late capitalism and postmodern culture advanced by 20th century Language Poetry and Critical Theory." But the rest of this piece in today's Buffalo News, about the growing influence of "Slow Poetry," is quite good. I didn't know (see article) that Dale Smith's idea-in-process has had such an impact among younger poets at SUNY/ Buffalo. http://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2009/07/slow-poetry-recipe-for-a-new-avantgarde-1.html Kent “Slow Poetry: Recipe for a New Avant-Garde?”

Well, the first paragraph of the article concludes with this jaw-dropper of a claim:

“Flarf has laid claim to the critique of late capitalism and postmodern culture advanced by 20th century Language Poetry and Critical Theory.”

But the rest of this piece in today’s Buffalo News, about the growing influence of “Slow Poetry,” is quite good. I didn’t know (see article) that Dale Smith’s idea-in-process has had such an impact among younger poets at SUNY/ Buffalo.

http://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2009/07/slow-poetry-recipe-for-a-new-avantgarde-1.html

Kent

]]> By: Gerardo Figueroa http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-20032 Gerardo Figueroa Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:19 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-20032 loved the photoquote! standing applause, guys! loved the photoquote!
standing applause, guys!

]]> By: Andy Dancer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19907 Andy Dancer Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:46:39 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19907 Urm, maybe because Goldsmith hosts the podcast and because the woman -- Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us -- is featured in the podcast? And why naked? Because it's a parody of the John and Yoko wedding album. All very simple answers. Urm, maybe because Goldsmith hosts the podcast and because the woman — Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us — is featured in the podcast? And why naked? Because it’s a parody of the John and Yoko wedding album. All very simple answers.

]]> By: Kent Johnson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19825 Kent Johnson Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:32:35 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19825 Someone just wrote me to say that it's really Jeff Koons's bottom, photoshopped! Now *that* would be some crazy sublimity. And here I thought we could start theorizing Conceptual Poetry via Burger, with a little bit of Buchloh thrown-in to soften the spanking... Kent Someone just wrote me to say that it’s really Jeff Koons’s bottom, photoshopped!

Now *that* would be some crazy sublimity.

And here I thought we could start theorizing Conceptual Poetry via Burger, with a little bit of Buchloh thrown-in to soften the spanking…

Kent

]]> By: John Oliver Simon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19816 John Oliver Simon Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:35:18 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19816 Cult of personality celebrating the non-existence of the self... Cult of personality celebrating the non-existence of the self…

]]> By: Henry Gould http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19815 Henry Gould Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:18:40 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19815 Because neither of them know how to sing or play guitar? Because neither of them know how to sing or play guitar?

]]> By: Kent Johnson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19810 Kent Johnson Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:01:14 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19810 >"for fun?" Yes, of course, I should have gotten the fun. Long live the post-neo-avant-garde. >”for fun?”

Yes, of course, I should have gotten the fun.

Long live the post-neo-avant-garde.

]]> By: Matt http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19809 Matt Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:55:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19809 For fun? For fun?

]]> By: Kent Johnson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/all-avant-garde-all-the-time-the-sounds-of-the-uk/#comment-19808 Kent Johnson Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:52:28 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4384#comment-19808 OK, so let me ask again: Why is Kenny goldsmith displaying his bottom (or his head on the naked body of John Lennon) in a post about the UK avant-garde? One begins to wonder about market forces... Kent OK, so let me ask again: Why is Kenny goldsmith displaying his bottom (or his head on the naked body of John Lennon) in a post about the UK avant-garde?

One begins to wonder about market forces…

Kent

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