“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.” IfsHumansFormSituationWrittenSourceSpeechDenyEndlessPostsDimensionsPoeticDomain Book:Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics Source: Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics
“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.” IfsWaySexClassTakenTaughtCollegePerformancesBelongingClassroomMonkTaught UsAccountantsHygieneSemiotics Book:Pre-faces & Other Writings Source: Pre-faces & Other Writings
