[New-Poetry] Geof Huth

[Anny Ballardini]

I was sent here by Tom Beckett's Soluble Census:
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/

Poets sometimes believe they control meaning, but that's hardly the case. Meaning is controlled by a force greater than individual poets-or even poets as a group. And people use "poetry" all the time to mean something that is not "poetry," somehow without causing offense. But when another artform takes on the word so definitively, problems arise in some conservative corners, among some people who want a poetry that is not visual-a poetry that is not poetry. (Strangely, I think of visual poetry as something different from poetry and call it "poetry" only as a shortcut myself.)

This reminds me how difficult it can be to interest people in visual poetry because the mere concept of it derogates the categories people use to understand the world and because visual poetry refuses to be easy to decode, even in those cases where it is relatively simple to understand.

Visual poems are temptresses, and we all know to avoid temptresses.

Geof Huth


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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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