Like it Mark. It builds up an intensity.
On 10 October 2013 02:55, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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