WITH MILES
Trane would start a solo
an hour later
still
be playing
Miles said
why so long
Trane said
that was how long it took
Herbie told Miles
I don't know what to play no more
Miles said
don't play nothing
Herbie sat with
his
hands in
his lap
the
whole number
up for
one
sound
back to the lap
Miles said
that sound was a bitch
Mtume wanted Miles
like a martial arts master
who splits an apple
on a guy's throat
without touching the throat
to play a whole concert
just below the
threshold of sound
Don't knock free
what it finds
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: What famous poets have you met or seen read in person?
>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.
>>
>>
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