This from the Blog at Guardian Books on Gillian K Ferguson's POEM:
"I couldn't resist the temptation, and i apologize, of recalling a
critical review of another poet, Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, whom the author
of this article will surely know.
http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/
"But we should all be listening. Rumsfeld's poetry is paradoxical: It
uses playful language to address the most somber subjects: war,
terrorism, mortality. Much of it is about indirection and evasion: He
never faces his subjects head on but weaves away, letting inversions
and repetitions confuse and beguile. His work, with its dedication to
the fractured rhythms of the plainspoken vernacular, is reminiscent of
William Carlos Williams'. Some readers may find that Rumsfeld's gift
for offhand, quotidian pronouncements is as entrancing as Frank
O'Hara's." "
2008/4/26 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dave
>
> it is a genre, a very special one at that, & some are masters of it....
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> Doug
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> On 26-Apr-08, at 3:38 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> > He is serious about the point though: if people's main energies as
> > writers go into making applications for institutional funding, if that
> > becomes their prime preoccupation as writers, you may well get writing
> > that is in effect a representation or reflection of that.
> >
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> There are no wrong notes!
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> Thelonious Sphere Monk
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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