Thanks, Doug for introducing me to this:
Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink
this from:
http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/07/christian-bok-excerpts-from-eunoia.html
Bill
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 5:35 am, Patrick McManus <
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> and so many different alphabets!!!!!
>
> On 27/12/2018 17:18, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> > It was a way to spend xmas day, was it Bill?
> >
> > It’s true, lots of poets have taken a gander at the alphabet (I did one
> for an artiste friend who drew the letters for it in a book).
> >
> > And of course, for the truly dedicated use of vowels, there is Christian
> Bök’s fantastic EUNOIA (& he’s an Aussie of sorts now, too).
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >> On Dec 27, 2018, at 6:38 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> cheers to waft of waffle
> >> p's a Patrick piffling perfectly pulsating!
> >>
> >> On 27/12/2018 08:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>> Thanks, Barry. Fascinating historical document, Zorm’s Lemma. Have not
> gone
> >>> through it all yet but I see that she does nor go slavishly through all
> >>> letters either. It would take some time to shoot those images, well
> done to
> >>> link Lady with Madonna. The accent is kind of creepy, other worldly in
> the
> >>> first bit. Is that a transatlantic accent? Like Sylvia Plath?
> >>>
> >>> Mot sure where mine will go or whether I should just leave it.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 3:16 am, Barry Alpert <
> >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Bill,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your charming alphabet poem. A major focus of fine press &
> >>>> artists books for centuries (I regularly read descriptions of them in
> rare
> >>>> book dealer catalogues). Right now I can't remember particular
> alphabetical
> >>>> poems coming to my attention relatively recently, but Hollis Frampton
> (who
> >>>> studied The Pisan Cantos with Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's) released
> an
> >>>> alphabetical film ZORN'S LEMMA in 1970 which intrigued me upon first
> >>>> viewing and now that I discover it on YouTube . . .
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2-GZRYGd8
> >>>>
> >>>> Barry
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:11:48 +1100, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Let’s take a little alphabet
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> letter by letter but let’s
> >>>>>
> >>>>> not start with a
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> let’s have a gander at g
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a good enough place to start
> >>>>>
> >>>>> g can be genuine, generous
> >>>>>
> >>>>> or globular, gullible, a grunter,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> an active participle ender
> >>>>>
> >>>>> gunning with his ‘in’ running mates
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but g is no a-lister
> >>>>>
> >>>>> too often grubby, gaping
> >>>>>
> >>>>> or gelled up,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> affecting genius
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and expecting
> >>>>>
> >>>>> jilted cousin j to genuflect
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if it’s a smarter consonant you seek
> >>>>>
> >>>>> look no further than c
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - like g, can be soft or hard
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but look what else you cop -
> >>>>>
> >>>>> conservative, classy,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> central, circular
> >>>>>
> >>>>> crisp cheddar cheeses
> >>>>>
> >>>>> notice its checks
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and balances
> >>>>>
> >>>>> wherever it crops up
> >>>>>
> >>>>> it can dance the can-can
> >>>>>
> >>>>> yes we cannot
> >>>>>
> >>>>> be convinced that c
> >>>>>
> >>>>> can collapse
> >>>>>
> >>>> >from its all-conquering perch
> >>>>> but what of the vowels you ask
> >>>>>
> >>>>> well don’t let’s get started
> >>>>>
> >>>>> on eddy everywhere e
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - sentencers and scrabblers
> >>>>>
> >>>>> reach and seek for him too often
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a’s are anyones
> >>>>>
> >>>>> u’s are unlovely q buddies
> >>>>>
> >>>>> o’s offer more, round out
> >>>>>
> >>>>> options but can obstruct orifices
> >>>>>
> >>>>> obliterate one’s onions
> >>>>>
> >>>>> no, o
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> should dip his lid to international, inky i
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - i is interesting
> >>>>>
> >>>>> immoral, immeasurable,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ideal, ironic, isolating
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and can do e
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if you like,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> right, Ian?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> s is sassy, sanguine,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a scene-stealing siren,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> always up for a plural
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> d, a doe, a downer,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> developing from drivel
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> f fails and falls frightfully,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> freighted with farts
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> z’s zeal fizzles
> >>>>>
> >>>>> h hums and haws
> >>>>>
> >>>>> vapid v no victor
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> t’s tops in trees,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> triumphs in thistles
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but totally terrible
> >>>>>
> >>>>> at tinkering with tomorrow
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> p’s a prince
> >>>>>
> >>>>> or a poor pencil
> >>>>>
> >>>>> privatised,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a pneumatic phantom
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> r romps, roves, rails,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a raspberry risker
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and randy ratbag
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but it’s double-clunking w
> >>>>>
> >>>>> that wins the all-wound award
> >>>>>
> >>>>> why w, you wise and whiskery wonder,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> wrapping wine and whisky
> >>>>>
> >>>>> whenever and wherever you want,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> warping warrants,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> westering winds,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> weeping at windows -
> >>>>>
> >>>>> what a way
> >>>>>
> >>>>> to wind down this waft
> >>>>>
> >>>>> of waffle
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> bw
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 25.12.18
> >>>>>
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> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> >
> > It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with:
> colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it
> was a British building secret.
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