Hello again James,
Thanks for the info.
Mike
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The publisher was Stride in Exeter, Devon though I can't remember the title.
Fraid these are not my forte Mike.
bw
James
>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: A Portrait - a prose poem
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:04:32 +0200
>
>Is anyone interested much in prose poems? I recently read a review of an
>anthology of prose poems but I can´t remember where or what the title and
>publisher of the anthology were. Does anyone know? Or does anyone know of a
>good source of information about this form? I feel my lack of knowledge and
>would like to learn more.
>
>
>
>
>A Portrait
>
>1.
>For one pursued through life by the sound of breaking glass it was a
>question of the picking up of pieces, a slow putting together. Life took on
>the appearance of a collage by Braque. A train ticket turned up here,
>something that might have been a walking stick rested in the corner.
>
>2.
>Mirrors exhibited an inexplicable propensity to fracture on his approach.
>He gazed at the picture revealed; here was an eye behind an ear, looking at
>something he wasn´t looking at, seeing something he would never admit
>having seen. His nose, disjointed, was sliding down his cheek. Apparently
>alien images caught shivers of glass at odd angles. Here was a bent and
>elderly man impinging on his temple. There, again, the walking stick.
>
>3.
>He sought ways to develop space vigorously. He pulled apart different
>planes, reassembled them to confine 360 degrees within four corners, to
>synthesise the remembered and the seen. He was surrounded by the internal
>as well as the external.
>
>4.
>At the fourth stage he stepped outside and engaged with the problems of
>light and dark. It was necessary for him to use all his knowledge of
>geology to interpret this terrain. He hoped thus to discover those
>subterranean forces that had done this to him.
>
>
>
>
>Mike
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