I admire your focus on the extended process of composition & your enactment of a sample, Doug.
Barry
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:30:11 +0100, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>thanks taking the writing as the artwork -just wondered my brushes do
>not snap they tend to caress? cheers P not a very wise old man in wet
>cold Raynes Park
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>On 03/04/2019 20:46, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Many poems from different dynasties, Patrick, all those old Chinese sages (Yeats also wrote about); of course they painted their ‘writing’…
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>> Doug
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>>> On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:43 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> is this about an art work?
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>>> On 03/04/2019 19:41, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>> so that wise old man
>>>> alone on his mountain
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>>>> far above the city towers
>>>> his tea cooling
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>>>> remembering friends
>>>> long gone below
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>>>> holding brush & breath
>>>> & then patient
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>>>> delicate snap of
>>>> thin black line — this
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> Something else is out there
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>> And I want to hear it
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