Dear Editor,
Re: “Eight Manifestos” [February 2009]. Silly rabbits, Trix are for kids. Who can doubt that if F.T. Marinetti were alive today (whatever that can mean), he’d entirely ignore Poetry for the kinesis of digital “new media.” They’d never let him into MoMA with his Rollerblades on, and he’d only deign to take them off if guaranteed to meet some donors. Only Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr capture some sense of the abject paradox, the necessary mobius twist of the action, the revolutionary in revolt against revolutions. They are, themselves, revolvers. And history is just a spinning door.
Re: “Eight Manifestos” [February 2009]. Silly rabbits, Trix are for kids. Who can doubt that if F.T. Marinetti were alive today (whatever that can mean), he’d entirely ignore Poetry for the kinesis of digital “new media.” They’d never let him into MoMA with his Rollerblades on, and he’d only deign to take them off if guaranteed to meet some donors. Only Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr capture some sense of the abject paradox, the necessary mobius twist of the action, the revolutionary in revolt against revolutions. They are, themselves, revolvers. And history is just a spinning door.
Washington, DC
Originally Published: April 1, 2009
Letter to the Editor