Feb 12
how the “doomed labour” of the avant-garde might be redeemed: “If we want to succeed in the future, we may need to … write poems more addictive than any neurotoxin, more seductive than any centerfold, and more infective than any retrovirus
— Jennifer Moore quoting Christian Bök in her excellent new essay on contemporary poetry and the aesthetics of failure, in Jacket2.
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