Douglas Barbour wrote:
> 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....
Actually I thought I was channeling Berryman, who I believe said
something similar: writing the poem to find out what he was saying.
I also wondered whether I was channeling CD Wright. Maybe SHE channeled
Robert Creeley. I'm reading Wright's "Cooling Time" right now, an
amazing little book of sorta-essays, poetric fragments, what she called
and the UIUC site "Hidebound Opinions." Some of them quite frankly I
have no idea what she's talking about, others make my brain snap back
Late last night, really too late for me to be up, I was meeting a plane
at Newark "I Gave Away My Liberty" Airport, pickup up and
overnight-boarding a friend I haven't seen in almost 5 years; and while
I was waiting I wrote down the list of prohibited items you cannot carry
onto a plane. I wasn't arrested for writing, so there's hope yet,
perhaps. The list may also find its way into something not too far down
the road. "Gee, why can't I bring my can of gasoline and sack of
nitrate fertilizer on board? Or my straight razor, pistol, and can of
pepper spray?"
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
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Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538
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