Yes.
Gentle hasn't been my word. I don't refute it.
I like to be gentle though I often don't achieve that.
I always have been gentle with these neighbours, in the short time since I
invented them.
*
I visited Auschwitz in 1973 and remember looking out of a window beside
which the, then at least, basic exhibition consisted of a photograph from
the 1930s of the field outside: a space not far from the furnaces. It had
been a concave meadow. Now the ground was level as a result of the human
ash deposited there in the 40s.
It may well be a more elaborate display now. I have no desire to go back
to see. The single photograph made its point. As, I recall, vaguely, did
Bronowski's simple statements on his tv series - The Scent of Man? was it;
or have I muddled programmes? I recall his hand lifting human ash.
I do not say, at all, that these facts are discoverable from what I have
written; and such puzzling was not my intention; but it was and is in my
mind. In a few hours in 1973, I was 24, I learned things I cannot forget;
I am still learning to apply them. These poems are my latest attempt. Sort
of. In a way. I make it sound more of a programme than it is
Thanks for your response; it is appreciated
L
On Tue, March 23, 2010 14:47, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Apparently gentle, yes, Lawrence, but in the context of the series, a
> rather bleak undercurrent there.
>
> It's becoming a large & gnarled vision of a society quietly gone dark.
>
>
> Doug
> On 22-Mar-10, at 1:28 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> Next door’s garden is dry earth.
>> Their ground is almost levelled.
>> You can see where it’s been dug,
>> weak flowers growing wide apart which they water every night because there
>> is no shade there. Walking just raises the dust.
>> They try not to cause damage
>>
>>
>> and stare from their windows down to the end-wire and trees, with lights
>> on throughout each night, at the noisy engines one hears. They are proud
>> of their planting and read up how to improve it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
>> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
>> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
>> what it is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>>
>> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
>> Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>>
>>
>> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
>> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>>
>> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>>
>>
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
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"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
"water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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