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From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: 2 poems
> Took me a few days to get around to them, selfish bastard that I am, but I
> agree with Doug: the first one is a particulalry effective one.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/9/5 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Finely tuned, Fred. Meant to be construed as more 'personal' ? Yet,
>> carefully & sharply distinguished, for me, from 'confessional,' by the
>> intellectual heat, even in the dream...
>>
>> & that first one is especially powerful....
>>
>> Doug
Doug and Andrew - Many thanks. I hope the "personal" is distinguishable
from the "confessional." The former is one element among others, which I
intended; the latter too easily becomes the whole.
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