A In this response, I tried to practiced “flarfiness” by googling the word “flarf” and synthesizing an amount of the search results in the form of a poem. I hope it works well.
Flarf
What the what is flarf?
As for flarf
I’ll give you as much stuff
A bad poem
A solicitous fawning
A kind of corrosive, cute, or cloying, awfulness
that brings out the inherent awfulness, etc., of some pre-existing text.
To be wrong, awkward, stumbling, semi-coherent, fucked-up, un-P.C;
to take unexpected turns;
to be jarring
to do what one is not supposed to do.
Intentional or unintentional flarfiness
You type something into Google,
and let the results just kind of lead the poem
you hope that what you get is good, but if it’s not, that’s ok too.
Out of control. “Not okay.”
Use of technology as inspiration for poetry
Google has changed the way we read everything,
and flarf seems to really reflect this change
We read in lists and brief blurbs, skimming and making connections, linking, liking
Proto-Flarf, crypto-Flarf, or just out-right Flarf
is an off-the-rack avant-garde trope
in which non sequitur is the basic rule for getting from one sentence to another.
Lots of really cool, really interesting poems
can be hard for most people.
Issam, I did not know the word “flarf poetry” and checked it online and looked it up. It is nice to see that you just did what I was thinking of. As literature people, we are always careful about what we write and say. So, I am wondering if it is hard to create something sounds awfull, awkward and “not okay”?
A good remark, Hediye. I think you have noticed that the sort of poetry that we are dealing with is characterized by transgressing boundaries, even challenging our tastes and expectations are readers. It seems also that all trends, devices and themes are permissible in this poetry. All in all, it is a matter od taste, when talking about the reader. for example, the words that you quotes in your comment are expressed by someone as his taste of Flarf poetry while some other people might have different tastes of it. Now, how do you taste the poem, let’s assume it as a poem, that I have assembled? is it awful and awkward? if yes, in what sense?
thanks for your provocative remark.
Issam, I did not mean that what you created sounds awful. Please don’t misunderstand. Flarf poetry is defined as awful and awkward. I think your poem sounds poetic as well as strange. That’s why I asked such a question which adresses our literary tastes. I had fun when I was reading and that means your work made sense to me as a reader.
Heydiye,
I did not mean that at all. It seems that you misunderstood my reply. My idea is that the words such as awful and awkward I employed express some people’s thoughts on Flarf poetry while others consider it creative and mind-blowing. the matter of taste is relative form one person’s to anther.