Thanks, Dave. The ordering was the hardest part.
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>From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 10, 2013 4:05 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new ebook
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>Like it Mark. It builds up an intensity.
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>On 10 October 2013 02:55, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Andrew.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Oct 9, 2013 9:38 PM
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: new ebook
>> >
>> >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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Description:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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’.
>> >>
>> >> Available as a free ebook here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THIRTY-TWO%20SHORT%20POEMS%20FOR%20BILL%20BRONK,%20PLUS%20ONE.pdf
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Ebooks%20index.htm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Andrew
>> >http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> >'Undercover of Lightness'
>> >http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>> >'Shikibu Shuffle'
>> >
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>>
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