Ah, that's where I got it from. Thanks for that.
I sometimes wonder, as well, if people take what I write here, too
seriously. I am not published (well, the odd piece here or there but
nothing much), I have no academic record to defend; in short, I have
no reputation to be aware of when I write. So what you see here is,
often, me at play. I have no notion of my stuff here being taken for
the *record*. It flows out between the morning run and work, the five
minutes between the end of lunch and the start of work. So it is
spontaneous, and all sorts of stuff gets pulled in, intentionally or
not. Most of it is play, most of it is for my amusement.
"personal voice isn't neccessary": well yes I agree, but I've had
quite a few comments about work (which I've laboured over) being not
quite *there*. Oh hum.
One of the reasons that I like this list is that I've seen people put
out stuff they know isn't "finished" and asked for comments. That is a
good thing.
Roger
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Douglas Barbour
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> Hey, that was one of the lessons Auden suggested for his imaginary poetry
> university.
>
> Personal voice can be good, but it sure isn't necessary. And learning by
> copying is one definition of craft, without which the art' usually doesn't
> appear.
>
> Doug
> On 28-Aug-08, at 1:05 AM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> One of the exercises I thought I'd set myself was to copy another
>> poet, to learn how to put phrases and poetry together. I wonder now if
>> that exercise is redundant. But how to proceed, that is the question.
>> Writing with no exemplars is not something I'm into. Any ideas?
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> A little planet blues, for the
> deathwatch.
> A season of rictus riffs.
>
> Dennis Lee
>
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