yes, Doug, the lines were all meant to be single spaced.
Thanks for all yr responses. When a poem just comes out like that, it takes
me awhile to trust it!
Off for coffee with a friend - delightfdul to be in my home town this week!
Andrew
On 16 September 2015 at 22:34, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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,
> >
> > I like the kid’s first book.
> >
> > Sure it has *young *written
> >
> > all over it, and there are
> >
> > huge failures there, but
> >
> > The daring! The rhythms!
> >
> > The searching! The knocking
> >
> > down of old rusty fences!
> >
> > The boy was drunk on words
> >
> > before he drank at the canon.
> >
> > A critic now says, *The poems*
> >
> > *were all right for their time. *
> >
> > As pink shoelaces were
> >
> > for desert boots back then
> >
> > and Pat Boone singing
> >
> > *Friendly Persuasion.*
> >
> > Many a sentence has
> >
> > a first draft. I dip my pen
> >
> > in his ink
> > every time I write.
> >
> > - Andrew
>
> 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.
>
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