You see, Ken, now you're sounding like you're channeling Robert
Creeley. Who said something 'like': I write to find out what it is I'm
given to say.' The book, & therefore the quote, still in one of the
boxes....
Doug
On 14-Apr-05, at 10:07 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Ken
>>
>> I like the new version without the like in the Surratt line, but would
>> definitely keep the line about Nothing is like.
>>
>> Relevant? But of course? They met in your head....
>
> Lots of stuff meet in my head, Douglas, which is why I need people
> around to tell me when I'm totally incoherent.
>
>> And isn't that the real pleasure when the liens surprise you, at least
>> a bit...?
>
> My favorite moments have been the discovery-shocks. The poem as
> surprise package. Wanna know what the poem is about?--write it. It
> sounds like what I've heard some poets say about that mythological poem
> that says just what they want it to say: if they could write one of
> those, they'd never have to write again.
>
> Ken
>
>
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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