Conceptual Poetics: An Editorial Pause
K Goldsmith:
'Throughout the weekend, hundreds of audience members, panelists and respondents were in accord as to the general principles of conceptual poetics. Only one respondent, Graca Capinha, expressed contempt for the genre, claiming that words shouldn't be made into "objects" or "commodities" for a hungry market, something she felt was swiftly happening. She lamented the fact that these writers have not made active political change as poets in Portugal (her country) did during the dictatorship where they were instrumental in change.'
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Sean Bonney said:
Goldsmith wouldn't be interested in 'active political change', as his sense of the 'contemporary' seems to be absolutely led by what capitalist reality defines as such. He's selling a poetics as a product, claiming that its so new everything else is obsolete, when really its just a domesticated rehash of avant-garde techniques that began to look boring years ago.