How many I's does your Me have? Mine seems to have an infinite number, in
the ordinary way, whether or not I'm writing and whosever voice I think I'm
writing in.
Oh this does get complicated!
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: poem
> 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
>
|