Oh, enjoy that Florida sun,m Rebecca, I certainly would. I seem fine
anyway, now, but I am not going anywhere, alas -- except in my mind.
One of the interesting things about the snap shots is the way they
demand a poem from the quotidian self, & in that I agree that that self
is there while we perhaps step into the mode of writing the poem for a
minute or two. That that works so well for some of us suggests that
after some practice we have learned to find that place to write from, &
know the various paths to get there....
Doug
On 21-Feb-05, at 4:20 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> Hey, Doug, I hope your back is all right, since you slipped on the
> ice, as for the
> cough, well, does anyone _not_ have one in this cold? though actually
> it has
> been warmer and sunny, the snow comes back from time to time as it is
> today.
> Anyway thanks for the interesting posts, and to everyone else for the
> Hunter S.
> Thompson posts and the quotidian self etcetera. I don't know who the
> poet is, I
> used to like that quote of Kunitz's that 'the first job of the poet is
> to create the
> person who will write the poems' but I guess I've lost interest, the
> poet is just, it
> seems to me, someone who writes poems, along with dumping the trash,
> going
> into the basement to check the level in the oil tank, making green
> chili chili,
> while the kid says "ah mom, you're so boorrring!". But then perhaps
> I'm being
> flippant; I'm going on vacation tomorrow to Florida for the first time
> since I can't
> remember when, no work, no nothing, and the desk finally cleared, so
> perhaps I
> have premature sunstroke, but thanks for the interesting points,
>
> best,
>
> Rebecca
>
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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And still property is theft.
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