I was reading Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities and I thought it was so weird. I am not reading a poem backwards.

– I understand wanting to read literature in a way that finds unnoticed beauty. I understand turning the work into something new to explore it’s messages and ideas. I think it is so cool when fan fiction, theories, spin off books come into play because the story the author imagined becomes an entire world. I love reading literally because for just one moment, I leave myself, BYU, and Provo behind and I can be anywhere. I can see anything, I can learn anything, I can explore thoughts on my own.

But reading a poem backwards make no sense.

At the beginning of the article, he writes about Deformance. Deformance is the process of viewing something with a mind of interpretation and one’s own opinion. It is a way for a piece to be on display in a way that is not usually noticed. The main  reason why I like the principle of Deformance is because it is a performance deformed. Usually it is the performance that changes and adapts and the audience watches, but here the audience has to do the changing to take a piece of work that is constant and unchanging and find a new way of looking at it. Deformance shifts the work from the creators and writers to the viewers. I agree that Deformance is when real ideas and inspiration is developed, but not when you read a piece of poetry backwards.

No one should read poetry backwards. That is stupid.

And to prove that deformed things are not always the greatest things….