Comments on: This verses that http://www.likestarlings.com/palaver/archives/1131 The Likestarlings blog Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:18:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Caleb Klaces http://www.likestarlings.com/palaver/archives/1131/comment-page-1#comment-136 Caleb Klaces Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:26:54 +0000 http://www.likestarlings.com/palaver/?p=1131#comment-136 Thanks Darren...I get a little lost in the metaphors there. But are you saying that the avant garde can only exist when it isn't the avant garde - like 'unspoilt' tourist beaches...? Thanks Darren…I get a little lost in the metaphors there. But are you saying that the avant garde can only exist when it isn’t the avant garde – like ‘unspoilt’ tourist beaches…?

]]> By: darren http://www.likestarlings.com/palaver/archives/1131/comment-page-1#comment-128 darren Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:25:34 +0000 http://www.likestarlings.com/palaver/?p=1131#comment-128 i think you said it best with the choice introduction of a living creature as somewhat representative of a poem or more ideally a poets attempt to make a poem of a solid and everyday unforgiving familiaraity, such as a house or indeed the constructs of a language which is necesarily both living and dead. The cat moves in its own way. Perhaps the questions are lost on the cat, although no doubt the only identifiable reason for characterisation or category in this respect is to know that the cat is not a dog. Abstractly speaking, we use our words as part of an unwritten agreement, relative to image or in fact to the self, we are only capable to communicate as far as our nature is allowed to impress upon its home. In respect to the understanding of avante garde, perhaps thats not actually a cat at all.. perhaps its a way of describing a cat... small, sometimes shifty and very often lean but at times fattened to the point of gross uncatlikeness. But perhaps also, in the same way that a fluffy hat might appear easier to understand and apply the rules of the house to, the avant garde is dead long before the language which seeks to revive it. i hope this helps more so than hinders i think you said it best with the choice introduction of a living creature as somewhat representative of a poem or more ideally a poets attempt to make a poem of a solid and everyday unforgiving familiaraity, such as a house or indeed the constructs of a language which is necesarily both living and dead. The cat moves in its own way. Perhaps the questions are lost on the cat, although no doubt the only identifiable reason for characterisation or category in this respect is to know that the cat is not a dog. Abstractly speaking, we use our words as part of an unwritten agreement, relative to image or in fact to the self, we are only capable to communicate as far as our nature is allowed to impress upon its home.

In respect to the understanding of avante garde, perhaps thats not actually a cat at all.. perhaps its a way of describing a cat… small, sometimes shifty and very often lean but at times fattened to the point of gross uncatlikeness. But perhaps also, in the same way that a fluffy hat might appear easier to understand and apply the rules of the house to, the avant garde is dead long before the language which seeks to revive it.

i hope this helps more so than hinders

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