Absolutely. That is: getting complicated, or even multiplicated.
I never know who me is from moment to moment, or vice-versa...
<g>
Doug
On 13-Apr-05, at 1:42 PM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
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
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