Welcome to Aaron Apps, who just joined as our twelfth “follower” (I wish we had a less loaded term for y’all) and who, according to his blog, “is putting the final touches on my manuscript Compos(t) Mentis which, if all goes well, will come out from BlazeVOX in the near future.” BlazeVOX bills itself as a “refuge” for “Post-Avant Poetries & Fiction,” so the fact that Aaron is willing to follow a curmudgeonly blog like The Perpetual Bird is both surprising and gratifying. I haven’t had the opportunity to fish around on BlazeVOX yet, but will—and I look forward to seeing Aaron’s work there.
I don’t agree with everything you say, though, I find your perspective insightful. And, despite some of the disagreements we have had, I agree with Seth in the need to avoid having poetries become too insular. <BR/><BR/>Your skepticism of the academy also rings true to me. Heidegger wrote on the backs of Hume, Kant, Descartes, Nietzsche, and so on. Sure, often in reaction to them, but definitely