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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: 3 poems
> Ah, matter, is that what we run from in words? It sounds good there, but
> then all the arguments in/of these poems do, Fred, that's something you
> do well. But I'm not sure; just because we dont muck in it in our art
> doesnt mean we dont engage it with our eyes & transform it then....
>
> Or so I'd hope, but then, unlike your I, i didnt grow p with the workings
> of....
>
> Doug
I was thinking less of subject-matter than of the matter that is its medium.
To me at least the words of Pound's "Station of the Metro" are vastly
different from a painting one can imagine of the same image. Even the most
carefully shielded paint and canvas will decay after a while, and their idea
will depend on approximation, reproduction. Painting - again, for me - is
poignant because it is *in time attacking time, whereas poetry both attacks
and escapes.
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