Love Andy G, Barry and your acrostic half-sonnet (a new form to me) gives some sense of his work.
Cheers,
Bill
On 14/11/2013, at 5:03 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> OF ANDY G[oldsworthy]
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> Of loose association
> for the place--
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> a slow decay of the sculpture witnessed every day
> now a trace where I've stood many times watching . . .
> Decided to make a home for the stone /
> you don't know it's so big
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> gave another fling . . .
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> Barry Alpert / Wash DC>>Rockville MD US / 11-11-13 (High Noon) - 11-13-13 (High Noon)
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> Hope this survives transmission as an acrostic half-sonnet because I've yet to be able to transfer Pages from my old computer to its replacement. Back in Poetryetc's archives you'll find six half-sonnets via Andy Goldsworthy's 2005 lecture at the National Gallery of Art. Possibly 2-3 more to revise out of my writing in the dark during his talk two days ago at the same place, which commissioned his still-transgressive work ROOF.
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