Comic-books? I can't imagine that's Pam's forte, but she worked with
screenprint back in the seventies and has always remained interested in
visual imagery so I imagine she'd be very capable. Rap? Maybe not, though
she's a songwriter, performed in a rock band ...
I meant it in the sense of a lifetime's oppositional poetry and politics.
Ralph
> Seriously, Ralph, what is a 'counterculturalist'? It's a word that makes
> me
> think of Marcuse and the hippies, on one hand, or the avid servants of the
> Beast who peddle dumbdown. Does she write comic-books or do rap or
> something? Exactly how does a good old-fashioned intellectual literary
> mag
> (albeit on the net) like Jacket qualify as counter-culture?
>
> 2009/9/19 Ralph Wessman <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> international bourgeoisie? don't think so, David. counterculturalist
>> maybe, traits integrity & generosity
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> >>From what I know, Pam Brown is far from the qualification of
>> >> "international
>> > bourgeoisie" and much closer to being a serious poet who has worked
>> her
>> > way
>> > through with dignity and commitment.
>> >
>> > You should have any doubts check under: "arts funding in oz" and you
>> will
>> > get an idea of social practices and much more - March 2009 Poetics
>> > Archive:
>> > http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0903&L=POETICS
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Anny Ballardini
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:52 AM, David Bircumshaw
>> > <[log in to unmask]
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Someone ought to tell her we say 'coffee shop' here too, in 'old
>> >> Europe'.
>> >>
>> >> I get a curious impression, Jeffrey, of a poetics for the
>> international
>> >> bourgeoisie
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2009/9/17 Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>
>> >>> Poems by Pam Brown at The Argotist Online:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Brown%20poems%202.htm
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> David Bircumshaw
>> >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>> >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
>> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Anny Ballardini
>> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>> > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>> > http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
>> > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a
>> dancing
>> > star!
>> > Friedrich Nietzsche
>> >
>> > « Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique
>> > vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae »
>> > Giovenale
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>
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