a hello, thoughts on fav. words, and etc.

[robb monn]

>
>anyone run across a collection of "talk poems" by David Antin called
>_what it means to be avant-garde_ ? definitely worth a read IMHO
>despite the title, by the way, but anyway.. one piece in it tells the
>tale of a linguist who embarks on a quest to, essentially, boil all
>the world's major languages down to a vocabulary of pure phonemes
>which he believed to convey a form of meaning in and of themselves and
>give the theory form by writing (composing?) an epic, narrative poem
>entirely in nonsense syllables. I couldn't help but be reminded of
>this piece when looking over the lists of favorite words, and
>thinking about my own favorite words.. got my mind spinning about the
>origins of language, somewhat. ahwell, I did warn ya that I tend to
>think too much.

i LOVE Antin -- I think that a better volume of his work than _What it
Means..._ is _Talking_at_the_Boundries_.  I don't know when these were
performed, but there is some fantastic stuff on the meaning of the photo
and other metaphysical oddities...  anyone else read it?


robb monn

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