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From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "british-poets" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 29 July 2000 19:35
Subject: bob jubile
| There's a companion volume to Cobbing's 'Bob Jubile' (Writers
| Forum) under the catchy title 'Bill Jubobe' (Coach House Press).
Yes, these are the 3 square books I was referring to - a squareness that
seems to have carried on into FOIL since Etruscan did the 3rd, but I am not
sure it works with such a thick book
| a couple of hundred of books of his in the house. And I've
| not got that much of his it.
I would have thought that was about it but he produces a lot whcih aren't
publications as such - there are levels and levels of circulation, private
circulation, publication
As with any artist, the output is of varying -
now what word shall I put in there?
I'll leave it to you
But I agree with cris' evaluation & find his comparison illuminating
|
| I've said this before and it's a silly comparison, in many ways, but
| I consider his work overall to be on a par with Kurt Schwitters and
| reckon it will come to be seen as just as signal an output in years
| to come. A remarkable and in my experience notably generous and
| generative presence treated as scandalously irrelevant by far too
| many a poetry scrooge.
I shall be posting an announcement of Bob's latest two publications later. I
have to retrieve them from the kitchen where I left them after rescuing them
last night from my shopping bag after a bottle of sieved tomatoes
auto-emptied...
(Safeway Sutton gets taken out later today)
and my toaster just burned the bread. there seems to be a domestic culinary
revolution starting. the next message may come from the fridge
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