Dear Jill,
interesting the differences you propose: snap/exercise/finished poem. Unable
to be terribly articulate, though I've often thought, and so I'll say, that,
however you view them, your snaps are always rewarding. Well, beautiful
really.
best
Randolph
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From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [POETRYETC] SNAPS snap
>I couldn't agree more with Lawrence, especially ...
>
> On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 04:08 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>> I value the snaps series
>>
>> It's not that I like every poem that gets posted, and certainly not of my
>> own
>>
>> but much of what is posted is often very good.
>>
>> ...
>
>> Sometimes, when I am feeling low or disgruntled etc, I may feel
>> curmudgeonly and negative - sometimes I feel I shall leave - but I try to
>> keep quiet. I think there is a big danger that one feeling curmudgeonly
>> will talk bollocks
>>
>> I value the relentlessness of the weekly exercise
>
>
> Interestingly, I was feeling pretty curmudgeonly lately as above - but I
> too value the fact it makes me write once a week at least. The way my life
> is at the moment that is quite a feat. No-one has to like it (see remark
> about 'delete' below).
>
> 'Snap' isn't perhaps the correct description, at least for what I do. It's
> more than an exercise, more than a 'here's me standing in front of the
> Eiffel Tower', but less than a final finished poem. It's, for me, an
> experiment, in the sense of 'let's throw this in the beaker and see if and
> what might happen'. If it happens, I post. People can ignore it, but I
> have continued to extract useful things from the experiment, as a whole.
>
> Email has its problems but the filter and delete function is very useful
> if something gets on yr wick. I certainly can't and don't follow
> everything on this and other lists.
>
> On the whole, I like reading what comes through each Wednesday/Thursday
> (allowing for time zones and sometime slackers like myself), the sense of
> work being done in the midst of lives, though I might not always comment
> and may not always have the time to read everything.
>
> But if it ceases I will find other ways to keep the momentum up. For the
> nonce, it's both useful and it's not just about me.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
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