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Liked It Rated 5 stars “The contents of an Inbox (sans authors or dates) rendered in one long thread of text. Will perhaps remind some of a conceptual project a la K. Goldsmith, but I found its sense of intimacy closer to an early work The Maharajah's Son by Lewis Warsh. One part of Inbox revolves around a reading trip...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “The contents of an Inbox (sans authors or dates) rendered in one long thread of text. Will perhaps remind some of a conceptual project a la K. Goldsmith, but I found its sense of intimacy closer to an early work The Maharajah's Son by Lewis Warsh. One part of Inbox revolves around a reading trip to DC. ”

  kaplan wrote this review Thursday, August 9, 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “"Can we, as poets, create texts about how we think and feel by using the language of how others think and feel? Can we compose with the new streams of language flowing in and around us (e.g. the ephemera and minutia of everyday email) to express our own place in the world? In a well-informed gesture beyond Baudrillard’s null set, Noah Eli Gordon’s booklength conceptual poem, INBOX, opens a new chapter of intimacy—his, yours, mine, ours. Welcome to a new subjectivity; welcome to a new way to say from the heart.
  ----Robert Fitterman
  
  Dear Noah: I am officially lame, have failed to write you a cool and snazzy blurb after all this time, and I give up. I've never written a blurb before, and it's possible that I just suck at it. I gave it a couple of honest tries, but it just didn't sound right to me.
  ----Sawako Nakayasu
  It was the Russian Formalist critics who first noted that one of the historic roles of art – and one of art's inexorable drivers toward incessant, ongoing change – is to incorporate new aspects of society into the art itself. Without which any genre would very quickly lose much of its connectedness with the life of the community from which it springs. Inbox is exactly what its title suggests, a work of art that includes email received by the author, albeit written entirely by his correspondents, over a period of time. Sociologically, Inbox is fascinating. It presents the highest order of conceptual poetics just by being itself.
  ----Ron Silliman"”

  BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4, 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No