But Why Call it Poetry? And Who Would Want to Read it?

Date July 28, 2007

Noted on Harriet, this quote by Christian Bök:
“Postmodern life has utterly recoded the avant-garde demand for radical newness. Innovation in art no longer differs from the kind of manufactured obsolescence that has come to justify advertisements for “improved” products; nevertheless, we have to find a new way to contribute by generating a “surprise” (a term [...]