What Jill & Sheila said, Andrew. Wasn’t sure if the critic or the narrator was talking about that Pat Boone thing.
Some of us ignored it even then, while diving in to a book like that…
And we can & should go back, remember…
I’m assuming all the lines should be closed up like the final 2? That speed? which is feeling...
Doug
On Sep 15, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I’m not joshing you,
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> I like the kid’s first book.
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> Sure it has *young *written
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> all over it, and there are
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> huge failures there, but
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> The daring! The rhythms!
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> The searching! The knocking
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> down of old rusty fences!
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> The boy was drunk on words
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> before he drank at the canon.
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> A critic now says, *The poems*
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> *were all right for their time. *
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> As pink shoelaces were
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> for desert boots back then
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> and Pat Boone singing
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> *Friendly Persuasion.*
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> Many a sentence has
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> a first draft. I dip my pen
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> in his ink
> every time I write.
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> - Andrew
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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