I know it,but not well
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On Tue, September 13, 2011 19:11, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yeah, I can accept that, Lawrence. A long loose line, yet wanting those
> ends sometimes to mean.
>
> Do you know Daphne Marlatt's great Steveston? Now, there's a long lined
> poem, almost prose but not, the breaks still doing work….
>
> And I should have said that to begin with…
>
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-13, at 12:06 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> er
>>
>>
>> and the words are left to take their lines for walks
>>
>> I knew what I meant!
>>
>>
>> L
>>
>>
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>> Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from Barnoon just after dawn
>> From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tue, September 13, 2011 19:03
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>>
>> Hi, and thanks again for noticing!
>>
>>
>> I have no thesis in saying this, but I don't think of it as prose,
>> rather as poetry where rhythmic constraints are very greatly loosened
>> and left to take their lines for walks
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, September 13, 2011 18:36, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting prose poem, Lawrence, demonstrating an other way of
>>> getting at the land, scaping it out.
>>>
>>> I especially liked 'Another wash of light forgets what it is laid
>>> on.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Then checked out 'town' in my OED, & yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2011-09-13, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sky sponged in with exceeding white, softening as it mixes.
>>>> Scratches
>>>> in the underlying board brought out by paint running in.
>>>>
>>>> Up to the first few degrees above the horizon, it’s brighter than
>>>> the sea; a solitary boat a single mark in an exposed patch of gesso.
>>>> There,
>>>> nothing has changed pictorially, ever, a calm sea a calm sea. Close
>>>> under the quay, there’s thick shadow broken by an all-white sailing
>>>> boat.
>>>>
>>>> Birds feed on submerging sand.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A flaw in the baseboard might be a chain or rope visible through
>>>> the shallow water. Marker buoys wobble very slightly among the
>>>> floating gulls.
>>>>
>>>> Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The sun climbs from towans, highlighting a vertical con-trail
>>>> radiating from its centre along with cloud ribbon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>>>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>>>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>>>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton
>>>> Dept of Music
>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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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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>>> s_10 .html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> People say they have to express their emotions.
>>> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
>>> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>>>
>>> Berenice Abbott
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10
> .html
>
>
> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>
> Berenice Abbott
>
>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
----
Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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