Thank you, Rich, I am blushing from attention!
Yes, Sappho - the ways the language scores to the page - I suspect resembles
the moves of moving through erotic (emotional, etc.) thickets. Not a
straight line, as it is. All poems are courtships! (Of one sort or other)
(Reader or writer).
Stephen V
> Stephen--
>
> This is just to say that I have read and enjoyed your piece in Masthead,
> though it will require a much closer and considered reading than I was able
> to give it at the time if I am going to say more than the movement of the
> language moving through me moved me--and I am not trying to be cute with
> that formulation. The language of the piece seems to me to move in a very
> visceral way, not only, but at least partly because of all the elisions or
> ellipses or lacunae or whatever would be the proper word for them.
>
> Rich Newman
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:53 PM
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> Subject: Poor(!) Alison (Re: Announcing Masthead 9)
>
> All this wonderful heady - "high road" discussion de plaisir, and no one is
> talking about the work inside Masthead, and what gives pleasure there. Is it
> (the work) still the pretty new girl (or boy) in class who everybody
> pretends to ignore?
>
> Take the "low road in" and God knows where you might be in the morning.
>
> Just another Masthead contributor whose work is getting impatient for all
> your loving, pleasure taking, even critical attention!
>
> And Alison (all that work), too!
>
> Righteously here,
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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