I would think the way the pictures are made deserves the same attention
often given to the way poems are written?
tom bell
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: ekphrasis breaks out
> We have a lot of poets in Canada who write ekphrastic poems, but so many
> seem to try to tell stories the pictures already tell, so why bother?
>
> I am interested though in the process, & in the idea.
>
> The lecture sounds interesting, but I tend to agree with Wystan, & feel
> often that what many see as ekphrastis is little more than a way of
> freezing responses through somethig akin to those words on the walls.
>
> But I speak as something of a modernist, so tend to want to write about
the
> work of art, how it happens, how what we do is like what they do, etc.
>
> Still, part of art is response, often to other art ...
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority
> of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave
> _breath_ out of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow?
>
> Roy Kiyooka
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