What a load of Flarf!
A new book called The Anger Scale by Katie Degentesh - a founding member of the avant-garde poetry group, Flarf Collective - just received a glowing review in Publishers Weekly. Flarf, for those who don’t know, is loosely described as a new genre of modern poetry where the poets mine the Internet for odd search terms and use the results to fuel the poem.Â
An interesting point brought up by the good people at the Fine Books Blog is that when an avant-garde genre is featured in a magazine such as Publishers Weekly, is it still avant-garde? (If a tree falls in the woods does it still make a sound?) Read up on works by other Flarfists here and here.
