That was DeSade who wrote on the walls. I write only
on the computer nowadays, unless I'm really in the
boonies. In fact, Jim Cervantes and I wrote a book
of poems together, moreorless in public on a listserv
rather like this one. It took several weeks and was
published on paper not long after, not that we've
made money on it.
Hal
"I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great
believer in money. Often when I couldn't pay the
grocery bill, Providence intervened and I don't
mean my natal city, Providence, which can be
counted on for nothing."
--S. J. Perelman
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On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Very interesting to an old duffer like me -I always assumed that
> everybody
> wrote with whatever was nearest to hand -paper scraps bills backs
> of letters
> -walls??
> You all are so organised -don't think that I ever have written a
> poem on the
> computer
> Cheers Patrick -soon off to Devon!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
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> Behalf Of Barry Alpert
> Sent: 10 July 2007 18:40
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> Subject: Re: Ted Hughes on the dangers of word processing
>
> Christopher, thanks very much for this reference, of which I was
> totally
> unaware. Though I can't quite follow the patterns within the
> examples I
> was able to locate on the web. Am looking forward to combining a
> diastic
> with a telestich when next I treat a text. I doubt I could manage
> such a
> writing performance while watching a film or a lecture, so the text
> would
> have to be in front of my eyes. Barry
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:35 +0100, Christopher Walker
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Indeed. Eg Thomas Watson's 1580s pattern poem, *My Love is Past*,
>> which
>> combines an acrostic with a telestich ('amare est insanire': to
>> love is to
>> go bonkers) and presents the whole in the shape of a 'pasquine
>> piller'.
>
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