Well, Jill & Patrick, I will think on that.
Have to think also about the reality of the situation, that lovely wise old poet…
Doug
On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:33 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Doug for me size seemed much more interesting than wise (Cliché?) cheers P
> summer here -am off for a swim soon (not in words but water!)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jill Jones
> Sent: 07 August 2015 01:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snap remembering
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> I liked 'size' there. It was the place I thought the poem was 'casually'
> moving towards, a sense of amplitude, and a way of disrupting or
> challenging the expectation of a reader. Anyway, yes, fingers and
> autocorrect do irritating things. Sometimes I find the error is more useful
> than the intention, but it's yr poem and fine it is as it now is.
>
> Jill
>
>
> On 07/08/2015, at 1:04 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jill & Sheila
>>
>> Aaargh: I certainly thought I typed ‘wise’ there, but my fingers…
>>
>> Doug
>> On Aug 5, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Doug, this is warm and real and true. Great!
>>> On Aug 5, 2015 11:29 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I’m reading the old guys now
>>>> he said looking back
>>>> to their age
>>>>
>>>> a book by a sixty year old
>>>> smiling man
>>>> that maturity of vision
>>>>
>>>> read now by one eighty year old
>>>> smiling as he tells me
>>>> how size their words
>>>>
>>>> make him feel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>>>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>
>>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>>
>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>
>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Done in by creation itself.
>>
>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>
>> Robert Kroetsch.
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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