Monday, January 05, 2009


Faits Divers de la Poésie Américaine et Britannique brilliantly addresses the deafening silence of most of the "post-avant" blogging community concerning the invasion of Gaza--

Well, Guernica’s come and go… As Gaza burned, Mlle Dark, the self-appointed U.S. poetry medium of Badiou, devoted her blog to a personal “Top-40 Countdown” of pop music hits in 2008...

Yes, and as Gaza burned, the avant with 2,000,000 hits, former editor of the Socialist Review, devoted his blog today to an anecdotal homage for the 70s sitcom hit, Starsky and Hutch...

M. Hassad addressed the speaker, M. Hicks: “Could you tell us, Sir, why the Flarf School is strictly Caucasian, heterosexual, and highly
educated?” “Because,” said M. Hicks, “It would otherwise be hard to mock Asians, gays, and other subaltern groups.” Then M. Hassad stood and hurled his shoes at the speaker...

12/26 through 12/29: Three-hundred and some dozens dead in Gaza; three dead in Israel. So far, post-avant bloggers have said not a word. Then
again, three hundred and some dozens of them are in San Francisco, at the MLA, wearing masks…