Great post by Mónica de la Torre: what we’re witnessing is not necessarily indicative of a return to past fecund collaborations between artists and poets, à la New York School .. but an appropriation of poetry’s discourse by practitioners in the field of art. The playacting of artists as poets is at the expense of poets, and involves their displacement. The epitome of artifice: poetry conferring authenticity, street cred, the stamp of the real deal. But wait, I see unwanted territorialism cropping up in my thinking. We’re in the post-discipline era, and anyway, don’t we want poetry to be made by all, as Lautréamont would have it?
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:42:48 +0000
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