ps
on a note of reminiscence, Kent.
I was just thinking back to when I first encountered the Yasusada poems - I
could remember it was in a volume of 'Stand' and I wondered if I still had
it as I could remember nothing of my reactions to the texts at the time.
Mystically, I found the volume concerned in the chaos of my bookshelves
immediately. Stand vol 37 no. 3 Summer 1996. I still couldn't remember my
responses (I think the first of the set is quite effective, in an oddly Ted
Hughes Crow-cartoon kind of way, but without the violence of language) but
to my horror I discovered that the same volume includes a letter by one
David Bircumshaw.
I swear I have no recollection of writing such.
Could I too be a fiction, a heteronym spun by a demon escaped from
footnotes?
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: Hoaxes and Heteronymity interview
"Hoaxes and Heteronymity," an interview conducted with me by Bill
Freind, is newly available at The North American Centre for
Interdisciplinary Poetics. One of the nice features of this site, run
by the Canadian poet Steve McCaffery, is that it provides
opportunity for commentary on posted articles. Lots of interesting
material there by poets from Canada, U.S., France, England, and
elsewhere:
http://www.poetics.yorku.ca/
KJ
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