Flarf vs. Conceptual Poetry
March 3, 2009 in The New Illiterati
Battle of the Titans – more here.
The Dictators & other sound poems
For three euros you can be the proud owner of 30 sound poems (which comes to a whooping ten cents a piece), written, composed and performed by me, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. For four euros more you can get a physical CD (home-burned with a nice cover) – including delivery costs. The CD features a series [...]
Booby, Be Quiet!
Booby, Be Quiet! is a collection of essays and columns about poetry, literature and literary politics(the title is a very learnéd reference to Auden’s translation of the Eddas). The essays and columns have been published in various places in the last five years – around half of the book consists of material written for The [...]
Newsletter: IWF! OMG! and Boobies!
Dear friends. Next saturday I will be participating in the Zebra Poetry Film Festival schedule at the Gothenburg book fair. The Zebra crew will play some of last year’s films, including my Höpöhöpö Böks, and me and Maria Silkeberg (who also has a film in the program) will be reading some poems. But the Gothenburg [...]
Sharon Mesmer gives me a proper talking-to
With the hostile takeover of triviality in popular media and popular art, perhaps poets have forgotten about fun, about charm, about joy, about attitude, about intensity, about popular iconoclasm, about naughty words, about the beautiful horniness — and driven anything that might attract an audience looking for something other than (supposed) supreme intelligence out of [...]
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Hey, Eirikur:
Play fair, my friend. Why compare the name of a movement to the name of the name of a genre? Why not use parallel constructions for the competitors? Try “Flarf Poetry” and “Conceptual Poetry” (both genres in quotes)–or try “Flarf” and “Conceptualism” (then we’ll see which score prevails…).
Cheers, Christian
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