December 21st, 2009 / 11:54 am
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Johannes Goransson has posted Joyelle McSweeney’s The “Future” of “Poetry”, involving Hiromi Ito, Kenneth Anger, Artaud, and a general consideration of the state of the state: “Poetry’s present tense rejects the future in favour of an inflorating and decaying omnipresence, festive and overblown as a funeral garland, flimsy and odiforous, generating excess without the orderliness of generations. It rejects genre. It rejects “a” language. Rejects form for formlessness. It doesn’t exist in one state, but is always making corrupt copies of itself.”

4 Comments

  1. December 21st, 2009 / 4:42 pm Matt Bell—

      I really enjoyed this, perhaps especially because I’m halfway through Ito’s KILLING KANOKO, which is also amazing. Johannes’ reading of the title poem at &NOW was one of my favorite parts of the conference.

  2. December 21st, 2009 / 12:42 pm Matt Bell—

      I really enjoyed this, perhaps especially because I’m halfway through Ito’s KILLING KANOKO, which is also amazing. Johannes’ reading of the title poem at &NOW was one of my favorite parts of the conference.

  3. December 21st, 2009 / 9:58 pm Blake Butler—

      Killing Kanoko is definitely something else. Seems incredible that work like that can get so popular overseas without many people knowing it here. We need more.

  4. December 21st, 2009 / 5:58 pm Blake Butler—

      Killing Kanoko is definitely something else. Seems incredible that work like that can get so popular overseas without many people knowing it here. We need more.