Well, youre one who isnt not writing these days, Lawrence.
I was especially taken by the man in the street in 24, but both of
thee seem to be focusing in on the general social context in subtle
ways.... And there is a focuser, so to speak, telling . . .
Doug
On 10-May-10, at 7:49 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> It’s so hard to escape a strong gravity
> and stay intact a living organism
> yet everything really inorganic
> seems to be trying to get up and dance.
>
> Distances vibrate, their durations changing –
> systolic – diastolic – while art beats
> itself against the sheet metal of space,
> shaping a cave to stand; and there to sing
>
> Up here, on a periphery, floating
> without radio and tv and telephone,
> one may stop up all that cogitation,
> directing it to a brain culvert, and be
> relaxed atop a personal mountain,
> remembering and resenting valleys.
>
>
>
> --
> "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
>
Douglas Barbour
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