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veddy ;) interesting idea for possible applied conlanging

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 10, 2000, 21:07
    "nomadic poetics" as proposed by Pierre Joris in _Poems for the
Millenium_, volume two:

     "A nomadic poetics will cross languages, not just translate, but write
in all or any of them. If Pound, Joyce, & others have shown the way, it is
essential now to push this matter further, again, not as 'collage' but as a
material flux of language matter, moving in & out of semantic & non-semantic
spaces, moving around & through the features accreting as a poem, a
lingo-cubism that is no longer an 'explosante fixe,' as Breton defined the
poem, but an 'explosante mouvante'..."