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.
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> Cheers,
> Gerald Schwartz
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> http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
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