I'd add a bit to that Joanna
which is that I is never quite me, in that the act of writing always
torques that whole relationship somewhat, whether or not one is trying
to write 'confessionally' or autobiographically, or, elsewise, trying
to evade one's own ego.... but I'm happy to have Douglas feel however
he wants about his Is....
Doug
On 12-Apr-05, at 3:43 PM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> But Jon may not always be right, Douglas!
>
> best joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: poem
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: poem
>>
>>
>>>> Hey, beside it was the character who was arrogant, right Douglas?
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>
>>> That distinction keeps disappearing in Douglas' poems - as it should,
>>> when the storyteller really inhabits the character (or vice versa, as
>>> may be).
>>>
>>> Dominic
>>>
>> Jon Corelis said many years ago that when I adapted a persona in
>> writing a
>> poem it always came out in my own voice. So I decided that from then
>> on
>> the
>> I would be me.
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Hand and mind
and heart one
ground to walk on,
field to plough.
Robert Creeley
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