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From: "david bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>; "poets partly
brits" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 22 May 2000 23:41
Subject: Re: Re:BritPuke
| (this also stands as a response for Giles Scott who asks Lawrence's first
| question but not his second.)
my second was a misreading of your posting. thanks for replying, but i
shouldn't have wasted your time - i see what you mean now
but my first...
| Maggie O'Sullivan's execution seems to be narrowed rather than tonally
| widened by her uses of typography,
my first reaction is "No it doesn't", but then we'd just be hitting each
other with our own subjectivities
I wonder why we have such different reactions and I wonder if you have
*heard her
some of it is a little staccato on the page... perhaps... she's pushing our
limited script beyond its carrying capacity
| Her ... neo-logisms are profuse and rare
neo-logisms tend to be rare
but to an
| extent that I can often find no clues in any dictionary I have as to what
| some of her vocabulary means.
a) listen!
&
b) don't worry, go with it
This, to me, suggests a one-sided aesthetic
| that has lost sight of the vernacular and hence of the language's natural
| dynamic.
yes! but don't worry David; you can get it back
(that's glib, but I mean it positively - I think you have it almost
*completely wrong
night night
L
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