![]() ![]() I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I do remember that it seemed important to carry out the activity in the same place every time, my writing room in our big old house in Kerrisdale. ![]() But over eleven months in 1973-74, I conducted a little experiment. Chance operations I found a little more interesting. ![]() So Surrealism and Dada and so on I gave passing notice. I had always been less than fervid about art stuff that had to do with the so-called unconscious or subconscious. I just read the reports and made up my own procedure. I did not duplicate their experiments, of course, mainly because I did not want to work on subjects aside from myself. The two reports were originally published in Psychological Review. It’s a record of experiments the two med students were conducting at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1890s. Solomons) Motor Automatism, a booklet published by the Phoenix Book Shop in 1969. I had read Gertrude Stein’s (with Leon M. The book has 26 chapters in which Bowering explains what led him to write those 26 (books and individual poems).īowering uses a strange technique, and variations of it, so as to be in a state of writing in which what he puts down on paper is a combination of random and a stream of conciousness to which he also imposes parameters.Ĭonsider from Cereals for Roughage (1976) page 62: But what really amazed me the most was to find out that my image of a poet sitting down to write a poem was as far off from the mark judging by Bowering procedures. ![]() It blew me away with a combination of humour and erudition. ![]()
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