J. H. Prynne

[sus]

Corey the Wake scholar I met, he talks about how the Wake becomes a luminating key for the counterculture. But not as something that is ever read. Reading is beside the point for the Koolaid Acid Test Tourbus types. It's the idea of it. The counterculture doesn't read it so much as live it. Neal Cassady famously was said to speak Wakeish which is bollocks obviously but it's the idea of the wake they want this glossolalic sprawling full of mystery. The Cosmic Orgasm. Elysian mysteries. Poetstutteringshamansong. The puzzle of the universe delivered by a medium.

 

[mvuent]

Ian Champion and I were just discussing this last night. We said, How do you distinguish between the good kind of text-enchanting interpretation. And the bad kinds, for instance, znore seeing twin towers on page 119 of the Wake

i liked that one!

 

[sus]

Ok Ian like znore

 

[luka]

So much great art by me littered across the internet.

 

[vershy versh]

@ricky11-j5r
2 weeks ago
A book that changed my life in ways that I never could imagine is "Secret Testosterone Nexus of Evolution".Drop whatever you're doing right now and go find that book. Trust me after I implemented things from the book my testosterone levels went beast mode

 

[Benny Bunter]

Bit the bullet and ordered the new yellow brick, had to be done

 

[vershy versh]

Bit the bullet and ordered the new yellow brick, had to be done

'Secret Testosterone Nexus of Evolution', by J. H. Prynne?

 

[Benny Bunter]

That's the one, it's gonna change my life

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ordered it cos I'm pissed of course, might regret it when the inscrutable 752 page tome arrives and I see my bank balance at the end of the month.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Thing is, you could spend 50 euros on 10 normal books that you'll read once then put aside and never look at again, whereas I'll spend the rest of my life staring uncomprehendingly at this - absolute bargain.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Just read this again seeing as I've been getting back into Prynne again after a long time off - probably the best overview of his work there is.

Robert Potts · Smirk Host Panegyric: J.H. Prynne

www.lrb.co.uk

 

[luka]

i like the keston sutherland one and also this epic

Jacket 24 - Kevin Nolan: Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah, I actually printed out that keston Sutherland one - Hilarious absolute daybreak - so I could read it properly, so good. need to reread that.

The Kevin Nolan essay went over my head when I first read it tbh, maybe I'd understand it more now.

 

[luka]

i like this

One temptation for a reviewer, at this point, would be to explain the
dazzling array of meanings that can be derived from even a single stanza.
A recent critical book devoted to Prynne’s work focuses on just this sort of
exegesis, and its authors enthusiastically tease out from the poems elaborate
suppositions concerning Prynne’s spiritual, economic, historical, and aes-
thetic concerns. And though the critical readings are both imaginative and
smart, their net effect serves to invent a writer not unlike the one Borges
describes, whose genius lies less in his poetry than in the fantastic arguments
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to be made for why his poetry should be admired

 

[Benny Bunter]

Which Borges does he mean?

 

[luka]

no idea lol, but i can imagine it. ive probably even read it. but that would be superfluous in any case.

 

[vershy versh]

I hope he made it up. That would be even more Borges than Borges having written it.

 

[luka]

I hope he made it up. That would be even more Borges than Borges having written it.

can you post this please? i did get a jostor account but ive forgotten it

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27191648

 

[vershy versh]

can you post this please? i did get a jostor account but ive forgotten it

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27191648

 

[vershy versh]