I'm giving war a rest. Instead I've been looking around on the web at poetry and art blogs. Tom Raworth has a nice take on the au courrant and politically correct Francobashing in his Vive le France I. I've been interesed in modern, post-modern, and post-nauseum poetics since my high school years. There's something just so abstractly tactile and satisfying about getting your mind dirty up to its elbows in the greasy machine that is language. It's a blast to read through some of the poetics blogs out there: Ron Silliman and Jonathon Mayhew both have fun, dense, and (post)-literate [c|s]ites. I met Silliman years ago at Sonoma State University through a mutual friend, David Bromige. There were meetings, real and virtual, with language poets, Oulipans, and sundry others. Also, just stumbled across l-systems via a link at the Arras website. It's run by Brian Stefans who has a soon-to-be published book: Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics. Looking forward to it.
