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
> >
> >
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