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A lion, a flinch, and an extraterrestrial were in
a lifeboat together and supplies were dwindling.
Finally, the lion asked the extraterrestrial, So
whats the big deal about the Internet? Speed
said the flinch in a blink of a wince.
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Efficiency without reason is desperation.
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WALTICthe value of wordswords have no
valueexcept in use
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The utopian vision of the open spaces of the web
may also hold out the false promise that
everything, at last, can be heard.Nonetheless,
our ideals for technology may incite greater
freedom even if these ideals are not, perhaps
cannot be, reached.
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Poetry wants to be free
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The Economy of Poetryblank page a few
centspage with poem nothing
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The struggle for writers is to resist the tyranny
of the mediocaracy.Questions of scale.
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Swedish Writers UnionHow can we strengthen the
position of the writer when negotiating with
commercial companies?How can we develop and
protect authors' rights in the digital world?In
the struggle for authors' rights, what is the
most important measure from a global perspective?
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The Electronic Poetry Centerfounded in 1995by
Loss Pequeno Glazier Charles Bernsteinas part
of the Poetics Program atSUNY-Buffalo--Scandina
vian Portal2007 Leevi Lehto
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PennSoundPennSound Manifesto
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Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.
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The time is not far off, or maybe it has already
come to pass, when computers will be able to
write better poems than we can. So we must now
add to logopoeia, phanopoeia, and melopoeia
algorhythmia.
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Computers will never replace poets because
computers wont take that much abuse.
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Speak truth to truth.
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In the world of the imagination, impossible just
means the next opportunity to get real.
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The author dies. The authors work is born.
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English as a second language is the cutting edge
on a new nonnational poetry.See
LehtoPlurifying the Languages of the Tribe
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..no other language can ever have its central
core so dissipated ... wherever our countrymen
are settled abroad there are alongside with them
communities of other-speaking races, who,
maintaining amongst themselves their native
speech, learn yet enough of ours to mutilate it,
and establishing among themselves all kinds of
blundering corruptions, through habitual
intercourse infect therewith the neighboring
English.Society for Pure English, Tract XXI
(1925)
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I love originality so much that I keep copying
it. The work of art itself does not exist only
incommensurable social contexts through which it
emerges and into which it vanishes.
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Against faithful translation Translation as
transcreation
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I love originality so much that I keep copying
it. Existence needs essence the way a walking
tour needs local color.
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Good poets make analogies, great poets make
analogies between analogies.
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A poem should not be but become.
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For those now learning to read and write on
computers, the medium of writing has radically
and inalterably changed in ways that can be
called hyperalphabetic if not post-alphabetic.
The association of picture, font, color, sound,
link, and design creates a writing space that is
closer to William Blakes than it is to the
poem or essay that most of us grew up with.
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Post-literacyTo say we are in age of
post-literacy does not mean that literacy is no
longer necessary but rather that it is no longer
sufficient perhaps the better term would be
hyper-literacy. Poetry in a digital age can do
more than simply echo the past with memorable
phrases. It can also invent the present in
language never before heard.
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Therell be a pie in the sky when you die.
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But not likely.