<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Alan,<br><br></div>Do you think the point Chuck made about speed in digital poetry (and I concurred with) is not valid?<br><br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Alan Sondheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sondheim@panix.com" target="_blank">sondheim@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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Ian Hatcher - amazing speed at times -<br>
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Rap lyrics of course aren't read; they're speaking bodies, sometimes improvising, like jazz. And digital poetry can be at any speed; some of my readings have been extremely slow. There's no definitive style to any of this. At ELO confs there's a whole range of approaches, the same as with any writing -<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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Good point.<br>
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Yes I have heard Raworth read multiple times. Its going against the grain that makes his reading so distinctive. I did not say speed can not be present in poetry, but if so it makes a different statement. Rap lyrics also are read very fast, but it adds to their street sense. Speed, on the other hand, seems to be the modus operandi of digital poetry.<br>
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Ciao,<br>
Murat<br></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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