Sorry, poetryetc, I sent to you all what I meant merely to send to Bill.
I have a postscript about sincerity.
Somewhere TSEliot remarks that Tennyson had
a technique for sincerity.
!!
Sounds contradictory, I know.
I need to look it up - it sounds like one of my hallucinations.
Sincerely yours,
Max in Seattle
On Mar 15, 2015, at 8:20, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sincerity is a very dangerous & difficult concept in art. It’s the art’s sincerity that counts, not the artist’s.
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> And, I have to admit that the words come first for me: “no ideas but in words’?
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> Doug
> On Mar 14, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> When one has begun to write, the hardest thing is to be sincere. Essential to mull over that idea and to define artistic sincerity. Meanwhile, I hit upon this: the word must never precede the idea. Or else: the word must always be necessitated by the idea. It must be irresistible and inevitable; and the same is true of the sentence, of the whole work of art.
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>> Guilty of selecting and including words before ideas, at least sometimes, perhaps more often than I care to admit.
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>> Bill
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> There is no life that does not rise
> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
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> To which our grief refers.
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> Robert Duncan.
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