Tag Archives: avant-garde

“The Red Wheelbarrow” in the Style of ChatGPT

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

Do you pretend to know more than you do to elicit my ignorance? My red wheel barrow is too full of Socratic irony to get yours into it Our cries in the yard just tears in rain the dead fact … Continue reading →

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Rimbaud and de Kooning

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Mark Kerstetter

Arriving from always, you’ll go away everywhere. —Rimbaud We are modern. We are so because Rimbaud commanded us to be. —Ashbery It is one of those curious accidents (but are they really accidents?) that I have resumed my de Kooning … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Goldsmith User’s Manual Part 2

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

nobility…. is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. —Wallace Stevens, from The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words [page 665 The Library of … Continue reading →

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The Last Ism

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Mark Kerstetter

I’ve been taking an online class through the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Al Filreis (the voluble, passionate, brilliant, indefatigable Al Filreis) on modern and contemporary American poetry. Something he said in one of the instructional videos (along … Continue reading →

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