Joshua S. ’s Comments (group member since Mar 12, 2013)

Joshua S. ’s comments from the Alt-Lit group.

To not analyze something, to conflate it with "the beautiful," to consider it godly, unascertainable, is to also rip its guts out. Or rather to happily repress the fact that it has guts, and mechanisms.

We are talking about literary forms, not the literature itself.

Right, so Anthony. What do we call those things? Do we need classification in a broad sense?

It seems to me that if you write anything that is not a short story, if it has weird line breaks, or weird design, we are to call it poetry? Grocery lists, chat room transcripts, etc, are categorized as some "experimental poetry."

I think this labeling does a disservice to poetry (free form and verse) as well as literature itself. It's time we start calling these new forms literature and giving tem room to grow and excite. What say you?