[New-Poetry] more adventures in conceptualist lit

[Anny Ballardini]

That is quite conceptual. I also liked the lonely comment:

I'll just wait for the movie...



On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:59 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> I think Dale Smith was proposing 'slow poetry' but here we have a really,
> really slow short-short story...
>
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/06/the-long-nine-words.html
> June 24, 2009
> The Long Nine Words Jonathan Keats, a San Francisco conceptual artist, has
> written a nine-word story that should take approximately a thousand years to
> read. In celebration of the infinity issue of *Opium*<http://www.opiummagazine.com/>magazine, Keats used a double layer of black ink with an incrementally
> screened overlay masking the words. Over the next thousand years, exposure
> to ultraviolet light will gradually reveal the story, one word per century.
> He explained his rationale<http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/story-that-takes-1000-years-to-read-is-antidote-to-media-whirlwind/>
> :
>
> Like most people, I live my life in a rush, consuming media on the run.
> That may be fine for reading the average blog but something essential is
> lost when ingesting words is all about speed. My thousand-year story is an
> antidote. Given the printing process I’ve used, you can’t take in more than
> one word per century. That’s even slower than reading Proust.
>
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>    0A
>    - Jonathan Keats<http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Jonathan+Keats>;
>
>    - Opium Magazine<http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Opium+Magazine>
>
> Posted by Menachem Kaiser<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/menachem_kaiser/search?contributorName=Menachem+Kaiser>
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