Daisy Fried: “…ice/Is also great/And would suffice” – On Flatness (July 2015)

To allege flatness in a workshop is generally to level a criticism, but when is flatness an engine rather than an error? What’s exciting about lack of excitement? How is it achieved?  Fried’s lecture draws upon poetry by William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Ai, Ross Gay, and others.