RICHARD ALAN BUNCH : The Saying
JOHN HORVATH Jr : ACTIVISM:
JACK HRINIAK : Let's Begin
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RICHARD ALAN BUNCH 
The Saying
What is not said or lined between the covers--- the flurries of form through sutures of thighs, seas tidepooled in mountains, nuclei that sway blue-hot raindrops, praise beyond a mission of similes--- these are the saying-nots, talented blanks that discern invisible planets, blow out of glass an angel, craft out of the holy, galaxies.
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 The Saying ACTIVISM:  Let's Begin  
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JOHN HORVATH Jr
ACTIVISM:

1909-1918 (from Deszo Kosztolani, Lajos Kassak, et alia)

NOTE: Literary Activism is not Social or Political Activism but they sometimes borrow each others' clothes! Since I mention it, we'll deal with it before NATURALISM. Activism is essentially “Messianic revolutionary literature” that calls for a new type of human being, the collective individual” who, beyond historical constraint, is a servant of the community. It is partisan literature that

ADVOCATEs the autonomy of art, autonomy of the artist as Avant-garde
Causes political and social (from a dissident point of view) (CODE hero)
Temporal Historicism, ALWAYS the case that The Time for cosmic unity, universal brotherhood of human suffering, is NOW
Individual service to the community is heroic-—HERO stands against oppression.
VITALISM (dynamic style, phrases reduced to single terms – near slogans, visionary details)
Ideological and Image/Imagery laden to suggest the good cause against an evil.
symbolic/Symbolism (in use of symbols and in content-—Bigger Thomas is “Doubting Thomas” the disciple who must be shown objectively but also “Tom, Dick, and Harry”--A common man whose self-discipline is challenged by an objective world; he is “Bigger” Because he is surrounded by the “symbols” of American success-good job, wealth, beauty, intellect—-you know the train and tracks)
M—Marxist Dialectic as authority and as purpose
  1. When individual rights overwhelmed by social structure, favor the individual;
  2. When the social collective overwhelmed individual anarchy, favor collective action.
  3. Thus on-going revolution; the literary activism always in the Avant-garde
Avant-garde: the part of the army that marches in front of most of the troops* WRITERS ON ACTIVISIM AND THE avante garde, NEXT ISSUE.
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JACK HRINIAK
 Let's Begin
LET'S BEGIN Darwin was an ape. Who ate his soul to to escape his fate. Adam fell from the sky to divide and multiply 'tween the thighs of Eve. Darwin leaps over "is" to "was" as a means to "be." And cries out loudly, "Adam never walked by me." Adam consumes all sin and doubt. into a world without. Darwin plucks hair from his chest; migrating west. Compelled to run after been there and done that. Existing not as a whim.
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You Take Advantage of My Good MoodTOP  The Saying© RICHARD ALAN BUNCH .JH a poem about e/omission/s as objects. Our language separate from our peers, our metaphors diminish their humanity, and, perhaps, this is why humans kill one and other so viciously; or violence is simply a universal imperative. see also IRONY
 Let's Begin]BTM  Let's Begin © JACK HRINIAK .
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