Preface - Electronic Poetry Center

From: James Sherry
Subject: Re: apex of the m…
The Apex if it’s M exhibits the superficies of the dialectic and boy is the thesis
the. But the seeds of the M in the L are multiple while the interpretation of the
seeds by the M is faulty but understandable. The quotation which I have
overused from Wittgenstein helps my explanation. "If we speak of a think, but
there is no object that we can point to, there, we may say, is the spirit."
Those objectless things in the L include, but are not limited to, vaguely: the
sign: the signified is not the thing, but the idea of the thing, – the body which is
a constantly referenced thing but sex in most of the L is skirted to a spirit of the
body by both the French and the L, and Language itself which is constantly
reified by the L writers; and also create the hook by which the M writers can
attach to L and attack. That these things are misinterpreted by the M writers
need not be disputed to thwart the attacks by the L writers. They are the places
where we have left openings for the next generation of artists. That the M takes
unfair advantage of these ideas doesn’t matter either, misinterpretation has
already been valorized by the L.
The attacks by the M writers are particularly galling, but again represent the
same tactic used by the L writers on the previous generation of NY School and
Beat writing, although the M writers are less substantive in their attacks on the
L than the L was on NY, but isn’t that what the M is saying, so at the very least
they are consistent.
The sad parts of the issue for me are the lack of recognition of these facts by
the L and the unconsciousness of the M writers about the openings which they
have left to be eviscerated by not only the next generation of writers whom we
can conveniently dub… the Nth. They will rue the day they used the word spirit
in their fashion when it is used to attack their right to write as they write. For
that reason, the most egregious and annoying part of the M is how they have
forgotten the lessons of the enlightenment exposing the weakness of spiritual
allegiances and its institutions. But I guess we have to "pay to keep from going
through all this twice."