I stole the 'wiothout hope' off Raymond Carver's advice ... Can't remember
it word for word, but that part stuck in my mind - and seemed like good
advice, once I'd thought through it.
And 'great' is a blah word, useless and illthought. Sorry about that. A lazy
moment.
Andrew
On 28 September 2011 15:30, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, I like the bit about _great_
>
> although I have another narrative which eschews the word for all of us as
> an illusion
>
> without hope?
>
> yes
>
> on we go
>
> L
>
> On Tue, September 27, 2011 04:07, andrew burke wrote:
> > Yes, a number of us read them all, I'm guessing, without comment. They
> > are often complete in themselves but also enhanced by their relationship
> > with each other - a wave building up. I'm looking forward to the entire
> > manuscript!
> >
> > Keep writing, Lawrence, keep writing without hope and without design. It
> > will all happen mysteriously as all great poetry does.
> >
> > Andrew the Innocent
> >
> >
> > On 27 September 2011 06:32, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I read them all, Lawrence, but dont always have much to say beyond that
> >> (as
> >> with the next little one),
> >>
> >> but I like the 'looking down' here...
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 2011-09-25, at 3:47 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Looking down into heaped chaotic sky.
> >>> Tumbled clothing of watery cloud overcast,
> >>> showing much strong white. A small fishing boat slowly disturbs the
> >>> tranquilised bay, followed by gulls flying themselves wave height
> >>>
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> Why poetry? And why not, I asked,
> >> my right brain humming sedition.
> >>
> >> Phyllis Webb
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
> > BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
> > http://etextpress.com/books.htm
> >
> >
>
>
> -----
> 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
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
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