You may well. I can't remember what he did. Or any Swedes did. I wasn't in
the best state of mind, my mother having died a few days before.
L
On 13 May 2014 17:52, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wow, I may have heard him, then, as I was in teh audience for that
> International Sound Poetry festival (not yet having done much of it, but
> knowing the FH). Obviously didnt meet you then, alas..(just a hanger on
> outside the magic circle)....
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> Doug
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> On May 12, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Yes. I wrote it with that judgment, my version of it, much in mind. I
> > nearly added "and it doesnt get better than that" but realised it was
> > superfluous.
> >
> > Beyond doubt the horseman knew him. I recall somewhat vaguely it's so
> long
> > ago a night in Toronto, the year of SOUND POETRY A CATALOGUE perhaps with
> > him and many others in the same (bar) space. I couldnt swear to who was
> > there; but most of us! Whoever us were
> >
> > A propos nothing much, in the 70s he and his then wife had a dog called
> > Ludwig, who, if you turned up announced and found them out, would let you
> > in with professions of delight but not let you out again unless you were
> > prepared to risk his dog threats. I never was.
> >
> > This was a small village called Rö. Cobbing liked to joke (repeatedly)
> that
> > it was the only case of a village named after a dog's bark that he knew
> >
> > L
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> it is you are
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