Miles said (to Dave Holland, if memory serves me well): Don't play what's
there. Play what's not there.
I tried writing like that and went silent for a while ...
Andrew
On 13/02/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I think Miles Davis talked about the silences being as important as
> the notes? Certainly, if a poet puts spaces in, they're meant to be
> 'heard'; at least, mine are.... And I'd sure think Oppen's are, too....
>
> Doug
> On 11-Feb-07, at 8:13 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
>
> > I think people are on the whole afraid to read spaces -- maybe they
> > think the audience will assume they've finished. I reckon it's very
> > like the rests in music -- musicians, singers in particular, use this
> > sort of lifted silence which carries through to the next sounded note.
> > If you don't let the tension go yourself, always holding in mind where
> > it is you're going, your audience stays with you. Works perfectly well
> > with words too.
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cudmore"
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: What famous poets have you met or seen read in person?
> >
> >
> >> We had that Peter Nicholls from Sussex give a paper on George Oppen's
> >> 'The
> >> Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living' a
> >> couple of months ago. It began with Nicholls reading the poem in
> >> question,
> >> having first circulated the text. What struck me is that he
> >> (Nicholls) read
> >> the words, but not the spaces. Perhaps it's a bit like that old
> >> Egyptian
> >> 'secret name': any fool can read the words, but only the author can
> >> read the
> >> spaces?
> >>
> >> (It was a fascinating paper, and is a marvellous poem, btw)
> >>
> >> P
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> >>> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> >>> Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
> >>> Sent: 11 February 2007 13:23
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: What famous poets have you met or seen read in person?
> >>>
> >>> There is an unarguable extra dimension given by the voice and
> >>> personality of the poet. But I haven't yet sussed out if
> >>> there's any permanent effect on the poetry in those sad cases
> >>> where the poet happens to be a bad reader of his/her own work.
> >
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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