Hey, welcome Mari-Lou! Good to see you here.
Daphne knew Roy very well, indeed, &, in fact, edited his version of
his mother's life as he heard it from her, in Mothertongue (NeWest
Press). I imagine she had much to say about that complex man & artist.
Thank you for those comments (the rest of you should know that Mari-Lou
& I met at St. Peter's about a month ago, & then traded books [one of
the best ways to get an active reader, right?]); her Viral Suite is
full of wild (& accurately used scientific) language erotically
pulsing.
Well, the whole point of trading is to do so with poets whose work you
know you'll like, right?
Enjoyed the CosmoSonnet too, Mari-Lou (cosmo-logy as well as
Cosmo-politan?)
Doug
On 14-Mar-05, at 3:22 AM, Mari-Lou Rowley wrote:
> Hello everyone. I confess! This is my first listserve! I'm a bit of a
> cyberhermit and I admit to lurking on the site for the past week but
> too
> frazzled with deadlines and stuffed up with cold. Now hoping a hot
> brandy will help me sleep, hard to do when ya can't breathe...
>
> Speaking of breath..,, I have been inhaling Doug Barbour's "Breath
> Takes." Wonderful errant ghazals the wide spaces between breaths.
>
> Doug and Ron you would have enjoyed Daphne Marlat's recent talk on Roy
> Kiyooka's writing/art/life. Makes me wish I knew him, but arrived in
> Vancouver too late.
>
> Here is a humble offering to you all from new kid on the blog, part of
> a
> series of CosmoSonnets from ms in progress.
>
>
> ***************
> Perhaps Purgatory
>
> Something to hold on to, another body
> in time. Gravity a definition of falling
> together. Lido under the noon sun, lolling
> waves, whitesand and a bottle of stars.
> Open it, take a sip. Effervescence of ginger,
> sarsaparilla snaps senses awake
> unravelling smell, touch, a hand lingers
> near junction of thigh, angle no longer acute
> bodies intersecting, equilateral
> becomes scalene in the depth of a sigh,
> the eye's bright gaze mirroring eternal
> bliss, hell, perhaps purgatory.
> Particle energy measured in electron volts
> the untidy oblate geometry of love.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mari-Lou
>
> Mari-Lou Rowley
> www.pro-textual.com
> Tel 604.708.8512
> Fax 604.708.8512
>
>
> Yeah, Gerald, that's right. And some essays in an issue of West Coast
> LIne. But in Canada, as Ron notes in his blog, while also noting that a
> lot of Canadian poetry simply didn't make it across the border, Kiyooka
> was known, if also sometimes dismissed by many who couldn't get what he
> was about. Which is to say that there were readers who couldn't like
> precisely what Ron finds so fascinating about his work. He played a
> mean flute (little improvs) too...
>
> I should note that NeWest Press will be publishing a new edition of his
> amazing Transcanada Letters, and the new, equally amazing, Pacific
> Letters, later this Spring. They re his collected correspondence, they
> are also a kind of poetry. I wrote an essay o the former, which is in
> my Lyric / Anti-lyric. Then there are the varieties of his visual art.
> The man was one of those rare renaissance multi-media artists.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 7-Mar-05, at 7:14 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>
>> An issue of danDELion a year back ws devoted in full
>> to R. K., addressing all the media he forged.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gerald Schwartz
>>
>> http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> RECENT POSTS
>>
>> Discovering Roy Kiyooka -
>> better late than never
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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is a mouth.
Robert Creeley
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