Response to readings: Sept 16th

Harry Matthews: The persevering maltese didn't interest me at all. When I was reading it, it felt like I was in history class for some reason. When they mentioned hunter gatherers that took me straight back to my Urban development class. I thought it was interesting how they tied tennis in there though.
In Harry Matthews poems, I really liked the Perverbs I (in random order) section the most. I thought it was really cool how they were all mixed randomly, and to me it seemed to still flow very well. I think it really interested me most when I read the, "the early bird gets the worm" because it was so familiar to me.

Jackson MacLow "poetry and pleasure"
I thought what he said made complete sense. He made the non educated reader think about art in a different light, and I thought his interpretation was very interesting. He mentions that what artwork makes is never predictable. Which, is something I never thought about.
Jackson MacLow poems: I thought these poems were very odd, and they reminded me a lot of two of the encryption assignments combined. I don't know why but the cut-up method and censored method reminded me a lot of the poems.

Ronald Johnson Radi Os
This was really creative to me. I never seen text written in this form before so I thought it was rare. The sentence: "At once to smallest forms their shapes intense, and far within, in their own dimensions. Silence, seemed so deep to me that the vision I got out of my head was those lines being read on stage with interpretive dance movement to go along with it.

For me as well, the Tom Philips, Austin Kleon, and the William S. Burrough did not open.