tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post2922708884709027566..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Daniel Broudy writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-10152736369394472952015-08-01T07:51:24.864-07:002015-08-01T07:51:24.864-07:00Dada lives! Avant-garde art that sprang up in Euro...Dada lives! Avant-garde art that sprang up in Europe during World War I, it detached words from meaning and the constraints of reality and convention. It was profoundly anti-art, anti-logic, pro-chaotic.Fred S. Kleiner called it "a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path....a systematic work of destruction and demoralization" while more conservative critics said it was "the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that gas ever originated from the brain of man." The movement was primarily European and not primarily literary, but it has been a constant inspiration to artists of all stripes for a century. The term "dada" was coined by Hugo Ball, who chose it randomly from a dictionary (it is actually a French term for hobby horse, derived from a childish way of saying "giddy up"); his poem "Gadji beri bimba" was adapted by Talking Heads as the song "I Zimbra" on the FEAR OF MUSIC album. Dadaist poetry was mainly written in European languages other than English, but William S. Burroughs' novel NAKED LUNCH is a good representation of "post-dada" with its cut-up style of composition, erratic locales and confusion of narrator aliases, and non-linear plot (Burroughs claimed that the chapters were intended to be read in any order). DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com