Comments on: Dave and Beth’s excellent chapbook adventure, and Dana and Nathan’s far-from-bogus collaborative journey http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/11/dave-and-beths-excellent-chapbook-adventure-and-dana-and-nathans-far-from-bogus-collaborative-journey/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:44:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Beth http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/11/dave-and-beths-excellent-chapbook-adventure-and-dana-and-nathans-far-from-bogus-collaborative-journey/#comment-878896 Beth Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:28:13 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5968#comment-878896 Just finished reading (gulping might be more like it, I'll have to go back and sort out the tastes later) Dana and Nathan's book. Your Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense analogy is apt, especially on a day when a brilliant president makes a nonsensical decision. This is very exciting stuff that ought to jump-start anyone's creativity: the best response to a postmodern world that makes no sense anymore. Just finished reading (gulping might be more like it, I’ll have to go back and sort out the tastes later) Dana and Nathan’s book. Your Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense analogy is apt, especially on a day when a brilliant president makes a nonsensical decision. This is very exciting stuff that ought to jump-start anyone’s creativity: the best response to a postmodern world that makes no sense anymore.

]]> By: Dana http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/11/dave-and-beths-excellent-chapbook-adventure-and-dana-and-nathans-far-from-bogus-collaborative-journey/#comment-878792 Dana Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5968#comment-878792 Ahem ... we wrote the collection in 4 weeks' time. (We actually had 5 weeks to write it, but Nathan was out here visiting for a week during that time, and we don't write when we're hanging out together. We just dick around aimlessly, which is the best way to hang out.) We curated the issue -- meaning edited, organized, selected the final work to include, and laid the document out -- in less than 2 weeks. We were shooting for 1 week, but it just didn't happen. Thank you for this wonderful write-up, Dave. And if by B.S., you are referring to the directions for making a papier-mâché narrative piñata, just know that someday you might want to do just that. And you know exactly what document you will be referencing when that time comes. It won't be your Betty Crocker's Cookbook. Funny, Nathan wrote six of the lines you quoted, and I wrote five of them. You really *do* seem to like both his and my writing styles. (Not that I sit at home doubting my own writing, worried that the only words of value in any collaborative poem Nathan and I write are the ones he provides. Heavens no.) If it helps, I also get lost reading the pieces. The other day, I was reading one of the poems in the issue to Andre Tan. I kept insisting Nathan wrote it. "Of course this is Nathan's poem," I said. "It has a cock ring in it." Andre insisted that I had written the poem. Turns out, I had. Ahem … we wrote the collection in 4 weeks’ time. (We actually had 5 weeks to write it, but Nathan was out here visiting for a week during that time, and we don’t write when we’re hanging out together. We just dick around aimlessly, which is the best way to hang out.)

We curated the issue — meaning edited, organized, selected the final work to include, and laid the document out — in less than 2 weeks. We were shooting for 1 week, but it just didn’t happen.

Thank you for this wonderful write-up, Dave. And if by B.S., you are referring to the directions for making a papier-mâché narrative piñata, just know that someday you might want to do just that. And you know exactly what document you will be referencing when that time comes. It won’t be your Betty Crocker’s Cookbook.

Funny, Nathan wrote six of the lines you quoted, and I wrote five of them. You really *do* seem to like both his and my writing styles. (Not that I sit at home doubting my own writing, worried that the only words of value in any collaborative poem Nathan and I write are the ones he provides. Heavens no.)

If it helps, I also get lost reading the pieces. The other day, I was reading one of the poems in the issue to Andre Tan. I kept insisting Nathan wrote it. “Of course this is Nathan’s poem,” I said. “It has a cock ring in it.” Andre insisted that I had written the poem. Turns out, I had.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/11/dave-and-beths-excellent-chapbook-adventure-and-dana-and-nathans-far-from-bogus-collaborative-journey/#comment-878791 Nathan Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:45 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5968#comment-878791 Wow Dave, thanks for the kind words. The whole process was a joy to participate in and I hope the work reflects that. Emily and Will's run with issue two should offer plenty of excitement. I can't wait to see what they do. Wow Dave, thanks for the kind words. The whole process was a joy to participate in and I hope the work reflects that.

Emily and Will’s run with issue two should offer plenty of excitement. I can’t wait to see what they do.

]]>