Robert Lowell was a favourite a long, long time ago. I have tried to
... follow three poets on this list: Patrick, yerself Andrew and Jill
Jones. I've tried following the precepts I think I've gleaned from
your poetry and put them into practice.
Roger
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, I've got Patrick's style down rather pat (no pun intended) don't you think?
>
> I've come to the conclusion that one of my talents is mimicry. I can
> draw things and make the drawings look like what they are ... I'm no
> da Vinci or Michelangelo but hey. The same with poetry. Once I've
> snagged that voice, I can write a fair mimicry. Lowell was once a
> favourite poet of mine.
>
> The problem that leaves me with is voice, as Judy pointed out. A good
> mimic has no personal voice. Mike Yarwood, a mimic from the 70s was
> lauded for his skills. Watching him talk as himself was a bit ...
> shocking. He had no voice of his own. He'd been subsumed completely by
> these other voices, or so it seemed. "Would the real Mike Yarwood" was
> the title of one his things; of course the joke was that there was no
> real Mike Yarwood and he knew it.
>
> 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?
>
> Roger
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Ah, poetry meets the world and the world replies with
>> StopSkunkSmell.com/skunk-smell/ ... or is that only Google's reply?
>>
>> Nice picture, Roger. Sort of Robert Lowell meets Patrick ...
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> 2008/8/27 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> two low brick walls
>>> a middle-aged lady and her skunk
>>> playing a game
>>> not-get-in-the-box
>>> leather and trim
>>> the skunks low flat tail
>>> shimmying
>>> in the low flat breeze
>>> oh to be sniffing
>>> another skunks tail!
>>>
>>> --
>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>> "I began to warm and chill
>>> to objects and their fields"
>>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>>>
--
My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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