Australians love minimalising. The enormous Melbourne Cricket Ground holds
120,000 and had been abbreviated to the MCG, but that was too much; now
most refer to it affectionately as the G.
Bill
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 9:35 am, Barry Alpert <
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> Patrick,
>
> I can imagine a visual and/or sound poet presenting the least
> visible/audible trace still recognizable as a letter in a human alphabet as
> the most minimal poem possible.
>
> Barry
>
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:04:58 +0000, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Barry
> >
> >eatc.
> >
> >also looks pretty short had not seen this -
> >
> >On 25/01/2020 03:50, Barry Alpert wrote:
> >> Since Ezra Pound's formulation "Dichten=Condensare" took up residence
> in my brain shortly after I thought I understood it more than 50 years ago,
> I've never completed a poem shorter than 6 words. So I was in fact jealous
> when Doug showed us his 3 word poem. I didn't want to let this discussion
> end without presenting Aram Saroyan's still controversial 5 letter poem:
> >>
> >>
> >> eyeye
> >>
> >>
> >> within his 1966 book "works":
> >>
> >>
> http://cuneiformpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Works-Saroyan-Complete.pdf
> >>
> >> Barry
> >>
> >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:03:09 +1100, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ah, I had not thought, Doug, of wind (pron. wined). You can
> understand, in
> >>> these firey regions why my first inclination is to think downwind.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 3:22 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> That’s fine, Bill. I don’t do this kind of thing a lot, but have seen
> >>>> there try it, & these words come to mind with the middle word working
> as
> >>>> verb & noun, & suggestive, at least to me. Patrick’s little joke is a
> fun
> >>>> little game with it, & that’s fine too.
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess that sometimes one wants (I want) to see how much weight a few
> >>>> words might have: Pound’s (& others’) dictum that poetry be as
> concentrated
> >>>> as possible? Admittedly, the image of stars winding down may not be
> that
> >>>> meaningful, but my SF mind liked it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Doug
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Jan 11, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> I have looked at this over a few days now, Doug and still I am not
> >>>> finding
> >>>>> whatever you and others appear to. The bald words expected to carry
> the
> >>>>> weight of lines do not spark anything for me. Yet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bill
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 4:27 am, Patrick McManus <
> >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> do
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> win
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> star
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> haha P
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10/01/2020 16:57, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>>>> Thanks Sheila, Patrick, Andrew.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As for that last, well…. But I am intrigued by what a few words
> can do
> >>>>>> more of, sort of…
> >>>>>>> Doug
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:48 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> "Now, write a paragraph on each."
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Patrick McManus <
> >>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> spaced out feel here -like it thanks P can see variations !!!
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 08/01/2020 18:31, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> down
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> wind
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> stars
> >>>> Douglas Barbour
> >>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
> >>>> 2 (UofAPress).
> >>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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