Like the current quote, Doug.
Andrew
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> On 7 Feb 2020, at 6:17 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Well, yeah, Patrick, but it’s one ting to try fro, & I guess this poem wanted to (also ‘beauty’ can take many forms,some of them ‘ugly’ to some eyes/ears…)/
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> Thanks Bill.
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> Doug
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>> On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:18 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Doug this old head just wonders about poems having to be about beauty?
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>>> On 05/02/2020 19:17, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>> the poem refuses
>>> it will not speak
>>> it will not write
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>>> this venal politics
>>> surrounding us
>>> surrounding it
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>>> no beauty there
>>> so the poem refuses
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>>> so many people dying
>>> so many fires floods
>>> wars manifest & hidden
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>>> but the poem refuses
>>> to write them down
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>>> the poem knows
>>> what the poem knows
>>>
>>> & the poem knows
>>> it must refuse
>>>
>>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Done in by creation itself.
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> 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?
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