Hi Frank,
I enjoyed the read! Enjoyed the first column better than the italic column.
It seemed stronger, more direct.
Bob
>From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Collaboration #1 - Venice Glass
>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:14:00 +1100
>
>A friend (up-and-coming poet Lorin Ford) and I have been messing with some
>collaborative work - one feeding off the other, kind of thing. I have put
>the first piece online (it's in table format, so not suitable for e-mail),
>and would welcome any feedback/crit, if someone cares to visit the piece.
>
>It's our first such piece, but we're working on a second one that has a
>slightly different approach (or not - I can't be entirely sure).
>
>The piece can be found hgere:
>http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/collaboration_1_venice_glass.html
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
>http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: James Bell <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: New sub: Reading Poetry
>>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:05:09 +0000
>>
>>This is based on a reading by an American poet, David Mason Heminway I
>>heard
>>read at a poetry festival.
>>
>>READING POETRY
>>
>>Already after much reading
>>the pages of quality paper
>>have began to fray -
>>by accident a spot of tea
>>has tarnished the perfect
>>bound paper wrapper cover
>>on the front.
>>After listening to you read
>>the reonance still comes
>>from the text set in
>>Goudy Old Style and makes
>>new poems possibilities
>>each time each poem here
>>is read, though it is said
>>you need to be young to hold
>>such feeling in the breast
>>and just goes to show
>>the state of perishable flesh
>>is nothing whatever age
>>it finally lights out at
>>no longer tuned in to the
>>strains of a blue guitar
>>or fresh figs in a still
>>blue bowl of nakedness
>>and sensuality that defies years
>>for flesh has nothing
>>on the power of the muse
>>to take us places we
>>have never been and place
>>the experiences between paper
>>you want to lick like
>>vanilla ice cream - consume
>>each syllable before it melts
>>and slips incoherently
>>between your fingers
>>instead of printed fast
>>on paper like fine parchment
>>to exist longer at least
>>a hundred years or so after
>>our own tinme - and then
>>there's the thought that
>>the text will either be
>>gone or forgotten in the rush
>>of verse that comes from
>>all those around, or will
>>have found a new format
>>beyon
>>
>>
>>
>>bw
>>James
>>
>>
>>
>>
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