Oh hey,m absolutely, Roger, as some of the best longer works of the
20th century are. I even read The Arcades Project, a collage if ever
there was one, as a kind of long poem....
But I didn't intend to suggest that it wouldn't be . . .
Doug
On 3-Feb-07, at 11:09 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> Why shouldn't a collage be a poem?
>
> On 2/3/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Barry
>>
>> I had found the Creeley quote before watching the Tuesday night a
>> small
>> documentary on CBC's The National on printmaker David Blackwood, in
>> which he said the quoted line about the Newfoundland village of his
>> birth. So it undoubtedly was in my mind. I actually thought I was
>> skimming near your poetic territory, but not really, as mine more
>> commented than just utilized (for comment perhaps, but always the
>> other's words - an ability I admire in your).
>>
>> Perhaps Kasper is right to see it as a kind of collage, but I also
>> hope
>> it makes it as a poem . . . .
>>
>> Thanks for the thoughtful comments...
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2-Feb-07, at 10:50 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>>
>> > Doug,
>> >
>> > That opening line is quite striking and prompts me to investigate
>> the
>> > relationship between visual and grammatical syntax in the poem.
>> > Quoting
>> > Creeley's poem at the end of your signature has an interesting
>> bearing
>> > upon
>> > your new snap as well, though I had thought it was "intentional"
>> until
>> > a
>> > bit of research showed that you shifted from the Wayne Clifford to
>> the
>> > Robert Creeley quote two days earlier.
>> >
>> > Barry
>> >
>> >
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> The stars wheel over
>> The Cross drops its image
>> Into the watertank.
>>
>> David Campbell
>>
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Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
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Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
The stars wheel over
The Cross drops its image
Into the watertank.
David Campbell
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