I was interested in Flying leaves but thought it needed a different kind of
layout and rhythm. I've been reading the wondrous 2007 Collected of Zbigniew
Herbert (trans & ed Alissa Valles) today & can't help think of the kind of
movement in voice and on the page his kind of approach would give.
On 7 June 2010 16:16, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I liked these, Frederick.
>
> Flying Leaves for its cool affect (interesting that it's an image found
> some time ago, & now managing to work for you), The Kid for its play off so
> many noir narratives, & Heather for its brilliant cynical (anti)comic
> effects (if that's the right term: I laughed, bitterly, as I read it).
>
> Doug
>
> On 6-Jun-10, at 6:54 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
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> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> because I want to die
>
> writing Haiku
>
> or, better,
>
> long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
>
> Phyllis Webb
>
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