"He’s a Poet and the FBI Know it"
"In 1968, the poet and visual artist John Giorno was on the telephone when he was hit with an idea. It came to him that 'the voice was the poet, the words were the poem, and the telephone was the venue.' He imagined utilising the telephone as a medium of mass communication, in order to generate a new relationship between poet and audience."
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What Sparks Poetry:
G.C. Waldrep on Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer"
"It's not misdirection for art's sake; it's misdirection as mimesis, the mind's if not the external world's, the shared world's. Or maybe it is, as Kelly would perhaps have insisted, the shared world's way, after all. That, and the poem's music, which is the world's music, that goes on and on, and in which we are invited—really, commanded—to participate, for a little while." |
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