I enjoyed the cat poems Douglas. I only meant to read one or two because I
have so much to do but I read them all.
Claire
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: bpNichol
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/poetry/library/ca1.html
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> and
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> http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/poetry/library/kh1.html
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> Have fun!
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> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
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> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Stuart Ross wrote:
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> > Doug Barbour writes:
> >
> > >Gee David
> > >
> > >I wish you could read the late bpNichol, one of our greatest. A major
> > >talent, & beautifully working against mere egotism (among so many other
> > >things his work did).
> >
> > Yeah, for someone who wrote almost exclusively about himself (The
> > Martyrology series), bp was completely devoid of all the negative
> > connotations of egotism. He is remembered as one of the most
> > generous, selfless folks on the Canadian literary scene.
> >
> > I've just been going through his work again lately -- particularly
> > his visual/concrete poems. You can just tell what a *nice guy* he was
> > through the playfulness and spirit of that work.
> >
> > I taught a poetry workshop at an arts retreat this past summer, and
> > one of my "students" was a hopeless poet. At least, that's what I
> > thought. You know, godawful rhyming crap about her cat and stuff. And
> > her spelling was atrocious; she was dyslexic. Anyway, I screened the
> > bpNichol documentary Pushing The Boundaries and she was transformed!
> > She was so excited -- the image of letters dancing around the screen
> > and the sounds of words repeating and transmuting... she said that
> > that was just how she saw language. And she started writing all this
> > incredible free-form stuff, and even did a pretty good sound poem at
> > the final night's reading. Wish I coulda told bp about her.
> >
> > Stu
> > in Toronto
> >
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