Maybe the real solution, pace Swift, is to feed poets to each other?
That would certainly bring down the poem proliferation problem...
xA
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> Stephen, you've put the real, the serious feeling, behind what I wrote
> better than I could myself. Thanks, loved it.
>
> On 23 April 2010 18:49, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I read recently that many are suffering from what is now called,
>> "information disease"- that is many live in a information swamped state of
>> paralysis, including, I assume, what can be a swamp of poetry publications,
>> photographs et al. I confess. I think I suffer from that disease. I can
>> spend hours looking closely at trees and birds - delightful in itself, but a
>> relief from the constantly looming market bull dozer (ah, a pun!) of Art.
>> Personally I also like the solace of a well made book - one that creates a
>> space around a small gathering of poems in which I can really concentrate
>> on the there of there, and take its slowly or, however, as I want.
>> (Something that is much more ephemeral on a monitor) This is not to reject
>> being once in my twenties and gobbling up everything in sight, poetry et al.
>> That was necessary 'food' for flesh and bone. But I now I even get fed up
>> with 'critical pointers' - online review mags with 50 etc. reviews. Oy &
>> where to
>> start.
>>
>> So I kind of agree with the root disturbance behind David's proposal - as
>> in 'give us a break'.
>>
>> Then, again, frankly, I think there has always been a load of particularly
>> young work that comes, and shortly disappears from public sight. Even when
>> I remember (if that) of the work that I have quickly disposed without even
>> 'going public.' As natural, I suspect, to the creative process as waves that
>> rise with some power then crash and wash quite flatly back down the beach.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:59 AM
>>
>> Not sure about that, Dave, as all they might notice would still be those
>> papers.
>>
>> I do recall Robert Duncan taking 15 years off from book publication, while
>> writing some of his major late work; now that was both possible, & a nervy
>> attempt to avoid too quick public review while exploring the possibilities
>> of his poetic.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 23-Apr-10, at 2:42 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>> > as there would be no strictures against
>> > re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble
>> retrospectives
>> > and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and fastidiously
>> > examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other than
>> if
>> > scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of poets
>> to
>> > what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the page.
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> The secret
>>
>> I was immediately set upon by two or three
>> critics, who hurled sophistries and
>> maledictions at me that were astonishing
>> in their dimness.
>>
>> Jorge Luis Borges
>>
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