(from my blog: artoffiction.blogspot.com)
One of the things I like about America’s venerable “Poetry” magazine are the surprises that it throws in now and then – translation issues, for instance – and in this issue, a mini-magazine within the magazine addressing two “new movements” for the 21st century, Flarf & conceptual writing. It’s surely part of the role of a national poetry magazine to bring to a wider audience work from the margins.
Having had more than one conversation recently about the lack of web-based writing that actually comes out of the possibilities of the medium, perhaps its not a surprise that Flarf is primarily concerned with that medium. Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, he introduces the subject by saying that “our immersive digital environment demands new responses from writers. What does it mean to be a poet in the Internet age?” What indeed…
