L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E på 2 min.

here goes: sprog stavet med VERSALER, sprog om sprog og så fremdeles. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E er lidt af en åbenbaring for mig. denne måde at tale om digte på, at digte det talte osv. det er altsammen både temmeligt indviklet & med vildtvoksende filosofiske implikationer, og så sådan helt enkelt: drømmen om et etisk funderet sprog. en flad, demokratisk strukturering af sproget, hvori mening og materiale leger frit. egoet og dets selv-refleksive 'autentiske' ekspressioner er forment adgang. en tillid til sproget, at det altså kan selv.

The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book er en tour de force udi tekster skrevet om sprogets materialle vilkår og potentialer. svære & æteriske & og selvfølgelig helt KONKRETE overvejelser om og genforhandlinger  af og stædig insisteren på ordets fysik. her en ca 2 min. lang best of (stærkt handicappet - jeg er ikke engang halvvejs igennem bogen):

Jackson Mac Low: 'It was such a relief to stop making artworks carry that burden of 'expression'. To let them become themselves, watch them grow & take shape without one's pushing & shoving them around too much'

Bruce Andrews: 'There is nothing to decipher / There is nothing to explain.

Charles Bernstein: Compare / these two views / of what / poetry / is.

                   In the one, an instance (a recording perhaps) of reality / fantasy / experience / event  is presented to us through the writing.

                   In the other, the writing itself is seen as an instance of reality / fantasy / experience / event.

Bruce Andrews igen: 'Read through system / culture, rather than just stare through language to wind up trapped in system / culture, in semantic artifice. Writing must look towards a radically transformed society that would provide the code needed to fully comprehend it. Utopia. Take nothing for granted, leave nothing intact, move outside, heterogenize, wake up the patient from stupefacition, desocialize the ego (so that eventually we might be resocialized). Indeed, explode ourselves ('joissance') into the text - 'airy, light, spaced, open, uncentred, noble and free.'

Nick Piombino: 'The problematics of space = the problematic of human relation to space.'

Ted Greenwald: 'The / form / of / the / words / pump / blood / in / the / form / of / the / heart.' That pretty much sums it up.'