[New-Poetry] Re: flarf: barf or bullion?

[David Baratier]

Chris--

We published the first book of flarf. Rodney Koeneke's _Rouge State_. His was followed by Mike Magee's _MS_  and Kasey's _Deer Head Nation_. Those three I liked tremendously. They were fun but still sensible. Except for a sparse group, I have a sense that intelligent commandeering of google has not remained a facet; various web based materials I have read by other flarfists have been tiring, barely edited, or poorly edited, text. Brief liveliness, but mostly dry text, awkwardly co-opted from other sources, flowing with random breaks, lacking line break skills. Often, newer material is thinly veiled racism and sexism also. 

Poetry has started to understand that by pulling in the small sub-sets that generate interest they maintain an audience. Many of their themes are smartly engineered and suddenly there is a possibility for re-appearance of the forgotten.

Be well

David Baratier, Editor

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> From: Chris Lott <chris at chrislott.org>
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> Curious what any of you think about "flarf" poetry (now
> that it's been
> given the official _Poetry_ magazine seal of approval)? I
> find I like
> the idea of the method of making poems much more than most
> of the
> poems themselves.
> 
> For those unflamiliar with flarf, I guess it's particularly
> apropos to
> point to: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flarf
>