ok then
maybe it's one of only two points that may not be painted, if you know
what I mean
L
On Tue, September 13, 2011 19:13, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Yes, this piece has a well earned transparency about it. The one line
> that seems off to me is: Birds feed on submerging sand.
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> Not time enuf to say why.
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> Stephen V
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> --- On Tue, 9/13/11, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from Barnoon just after dawn
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:03 AM
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> Hi, and thanks again for noticing!
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>
> 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
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> On Tue, September 13, 2011 18:36, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> 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.'
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>> Then checked out 'town' in my OED, & yes.
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>> Doug
>> On 2011-09-13, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> 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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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> 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
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>>
>> 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
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