Letter
to Alex: The Harvest Canon 2002
Alex:
What
is the Harvest canon? It's a non-linear narrative. Abstract-expressionist
writing. In the avante garde tradition that has now gone through
three phases in this century. Speed and wild juxtaposition for
the re-birth of a new era and a new literary mandala.
Harvest
of Gems explores the invisible and shamanic mind. Black and
white stress explores the vortices and its cycles of psychic
clampdown and space-out. The destruction of space and time in
a speeded up world. The emerging global mind and the richness
of perpetual pilgrimage.
2-ss
explores mythic Atlantis and UFOs and there connection to past
global minds on our planet. Alsothe deeper aspects of a psychic
planetary culture.
These
radical vistas need a radical experimental writing thatultimately
turns into a liturgical planetary chant.
The
first avante garde wave tried to mirror the post-trench and
post-poison gas world of 1919.
The
second avante garde wave tried to mirror the post-concentration
camp and post- atomic bomb world of 1946.
The
third avante garde wave is trying to mirror the post-Indian
atomic bomb and post-9/11 world of 2002.
We are still at the very beginning of it....western bombs are
being replaced by eastern ones.
Much
more later.
Michael
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