ISBN 1-879585-01-4
FLORENTINSMARANDACHE
NONPOEMS
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XIQUAN Publishing House 1990
A MER IC A N M A N I FESTO I left the communist totalitarism and emigrated to the United States for the freedom: Therefore, don't force any literary rules on me! Or, if you do, I'll certainly encroach upon them. I'm not a poet, that's why I write poetry. I'm an anti-poet or non-poet. I thus came to America to re-build the statue of Liberty of the Verse, delivered from the tyranny of the classic and its dogma. I allowed any boldness: . anti -literature and its literature face of the . flexible forms fixed, or the live death! . style of the non-style . poems without verse (because poems don't mean words) dumb poems with loud voice . poems without poems match any (because the notion of "poem" doesn't definition found in dictionaries or encyclopedias) -poems which exist by their absence . after -war literature: pages and pages bombed by filthiness, triteness, and nonpoeticality . paralinguistic verse (only!): graphics, lyrical PQrtraits, drawings, drafts non-words and non -sentence poems . very upset free verse and trivial hermetic verse . intelligible unintelligible language . unsolved and open pro blems of mathematics like very nice poems of the spirit-we must scientificize the art in this technical century . . impersonal texts personalized . electrical shock . translation from the impossible into the possible, to the normal or transformation of the a bnormal . pro Non- Art Art . make literature from everything, make literature from nothing! The poet is not a prince of ducks! The notion of "poetry" and its derivatives have become old •
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fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will read this volume because it's nothing to read! is neither However, the Paradoxist Movement nihilism, nor despairity. The book of non-poems is a protest against art's marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? only books about crimes, sex, horror are published. Where is the true Art? In begging.... You may find in this book of uncollected poems everything you don't need and don't like: poems not to be read, not to be heard, not to be written at all! Enjoy them. Only after nuisance you They provide a really know what pleasure means. mirror of everybody's infinite soul. Art, generally speaking, is pushed up to its last possible frontiers toward non-art, and even more Better a book of blank pages, than one which says nothing. A very abstract and symbolic language is further used, but very concrete at the same time: non restrictive verse from any form or content. It takes advantage of cliche against itself. E VERYTH I N G IS POSS I BLE, THEREFORE: THE IM POSS I BLE ALSO! Hence don't wonder about this anti -book! If you don't understand it, that means you understand all. That is the goal of the manifesto. Because Art is not for the mind, but for feelings. Becaqse Art is also for the mind. Try to interpret the uninterpretable! Your imagination may flourish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of THE PARADOX IST MOVEMENT is especially a revolt of the emigrant to the United States who doesn't speak English, against the language-an anti-language book written in more than broken English (the American speach of Tomorrow?) ... •
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Contents
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Dear Reader & Non-Reader, You may send your opinion and oath to:
Florentin Smarandache P.O.Box 42 561 Phoenix, Arizona 85080 USA
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THE PARADOX IST MOVEMENT Ten yea rs ago the Autho r set up the P a r a d o x i s t M 0 v e m e n t in Romania together with a g roup of writers (Constantin M. Popa, Constantin Traian Nica). Dinca, He published his first "Laws of internal volume in this style: composition. Poems with. . . p roblems! " (Romanian) { Morocco, 1982}, a fterwards a paradoxist mani festo in his volume "The Sense of the Non-Sense" ( French) (Mo rocco, 1983 & 1984}, and a thi rd volume: "Ante rooms/Anti-poems/strange-verse" { France, 1989}. He sp read the pa radoxism to othe r w riters : f rom Mo rocco (Khal il Ralss) , F rance (Claude LeRoy, Chantal Signoret, Annie Delpe rier, Paul Courget, Ch ris Be rna rd, Jean-Michel Levena rd), Tu rkey (Halil Gokhan), and he's now trying to introduce this Paradoxist Movement to the United States, i.e. literatu re beyond the words!.. . art of the non-art. . . revolutionary form and content. . . anarchy and dictatorship o f the words ly rical avant-ga rde and experiments. . . •
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