[New-Poetry] Pirates - AHOY!

[amy king]

For what's it worth, kudos to these three young guys.  I imagine they're students, twiddling their thumbs, trying to imagine how to stir up the poetry world, steeped in some sort of theory (situationist? dada-ist? surrealism?  etc), facing the menacing world of "getting published" and making something of themselves as poets, ahem.  They've decided to take on the death of the lyrical I, the death of the author, the death of paper, the celebration of the internet sea, etc.  They've done something, though just what isn't clear, but yes, kudos to their efforts to make a mess of the pool of internet muck -- it may be only a ripple in the end, but maybe some of the worthwhile work and sites and ideas will get a chance to rise (not from the anthology) after their pebble has sunk to disappearance.

My response to these three here:
http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/the-author-resurrected/

Be well,
Amy

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--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
From: Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Pirates
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 9:52 AM

Just added this to the comments on the Poetry Foundation website:

       
http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/3785_page_pirated_poetry_antho.html#more

Robin

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It's been suggested on another list that the names are those members of 
blogger.com who have the tag "poetry" associated with them.
When you add to this that the texts are generated, you have (a) something 
that doesn't need that much effort to produce, since the names were 
"selected" by a bot trawl, and (b) an anthology that not even the
"editors" 
would have read.

There are some people that not even their mother could love.

Now that it's been done, let's hope that we're spared a repetition
of the 
event.

Robin

Posted by: Robin | October 4, 2008 8:47 AM

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