I really liked yr Sometimes poem. Reread it a number of times - excellent.
More readings later. Andrew
On 10 October 2013 03:37, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Thirty-Two Short Poems for Bill
> Bronk, plus One” by Mark Weiss
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> William Bronk's work is characterized by extreme care. Metaphors are few
> and deployed gingerly, and the matter of daily life enters most often just
> enough to suggest a context. And his concerns are almost exclusively with
> final things: on the fugitive nature of both the self and any kind of
> external reality, Being as if lost in the chaos of before the Biblical
> creation. 'What we want is a here with a meaning' he says in one of his
> poems, and goes on to demonstrate that we can't have it.
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> Of this collection of poems inspired by Bronk’s writing practice, Mark
> Weiss says, ‘Few of these poems dedicated to his practice really attempt to
> achieve it, and he probably would have found most of them in different ways
> totally scandalous. Rather, they seem to me to dance around his work as a
> fixed point. It's in fact “Sometimes,” a poem outside the group, that may
> come closest to Bill's poetry, though longer than all but a few of his, and
> I've chosen to place it immediately after them, as a sort of envoi’.
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> Available as a free ebook here:
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> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THIRTY-TWO%20SHORT%20POEMS%20FOR%20BILL%20BRONK,%20PLUS%20ONE.pdf
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> Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
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> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Ebooks%20index.htm
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Andrew
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