wiedergelesen, mich gefreut:

Personism has nothing to do with philosophy, it's all art. It does not have to do with personality or intimacy, far from it! But to give you a vague idea, one of its minimal aspects is to address itself to one person (other than the poet himself), thus evoking overtones of love without destroying love's life-giving vulgarity, and sustaining the poet's feelings towards the poem while preventing love from distracting him into feeling about the person. That's part of personism. It was founded by me after lunch with LeRoi Jones on August 27, 1959, a day in which I was in love with someone (not Roi, by the way, a blond). I went back to work and wrote a poem for this person. While I was writing it I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem, and so Personism was born. <<

from: frank o'hara: personism: a manifesto






was mir die gelegenheit, eine/n neue/n kontributor/in auf dem lsb zu begrüßen.


danke. von "personism" hatte ich überhaupt noch nie gehört. ("But it, like Africa, is on the way." - fällt mir ein: neulich beim aufräumen ein altes t-shirt gefunden, aufdruck "hamburg ohne hafenstrasse ist wie die bundesliga ohne den fc st. pauli")