Sunday, May 6, 2007

Poetry as Established Language Game vs. Language Poetry

In a message dated 5/6/07 6:53:09 AM, DeathTrapComp writes:

Poetry is an established language game, and it proceeds by long established rules which, once ignored in the name of an "avant garde", constitute one as seriously autistic.
Well, yes, I'm recommending that we challenge or disregard those "long establised rules" and assumptions in the hope of new possibilities. "Why not? Why not give something else, some other paradigms a go?"

One cannot make a go of maintaining one is constituting poetry via a conscious effort to discard central mechanisms of interpersonal communication. One cannot successfully disregard "about". One cannot successfully practice autism, those persons are set aside and protected;- their contribution is at best idiosyncratic and minimal. One cannot establish new paradigms of linguistic efficiency by discarding/disregarding given efficient modes of communication; one must employ given means of communication in an attempt to constitute something new. One cannot communicate via uncommunicative linguistic structures. One cannot establish new paradigms of communicativeness via being uncommunicative, one can, thereby, only establish babbling nonsense. You cannot unplug from established means of language-communication and remain within the realm of language. Your poetry is an apparent language which has, in fact, abandoned language, because, it has abandoned communication.
Nihilistic autistic absurdity. (This cat-O-nine-tails of mine is lashing poor little Scott to ribbons ! ?)