> A sort of framework that old poets may notbe able to adapt to either.
>
Speechless. Think I'll just go off to the cemetery now, and start digging.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruark Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: Poetry on the Peaks--Poetry readings on the Seven Summits and
other mountains
> Dear Dave Mark Jill.
> well!
> I had heard Poetry is Dead. You make it seem that the
> corpse is not able either. Of course you drive, if you
> can't invite another person to do it for you as I am
> sure the experience of your company or of going
> somewhere with you dear poet would be enough for me. I
> think Ram's offer is less an invite than a conceptual
> proposal(as in a conceptual art work). A sort of
> framework that old poets may notbe able to adapt to
> either.
>
> Some younger artists run a space here in Sydney
> (called First Draft) and they recently gathered up the
> troops, for a miniture show. I delivered my three very
> small drawings there today to find that the other
> artists had interpreted the word miniture as meaning
> small. So the charm of the action, the prospect of
> work being tiny was lost and the public will loose the
> opportunity to see a lot of tiny fantasies.
>
> Now there was a famous Lativian landscape painter much
> admired by the Australian artist Imants Tillers,
> called Rorack(sic) who paints the profile of
> mountain-tops from nieghbouring mountain-tops. So I
> wonder if Gary Snyder when atop his mount will
> lovingly poem out the profile of the next peak that
> stands in the row???
>
> are you cynics
> best wishes
> Ruark
>
>
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