Bill,
I started reading your Miro poem on Wednesday assuming it was Joan Miro and then stopped because I couldn't remember any of my experiences viewing his art, though I know I've seen paintings by him in museums, but never a memorable retrospective. Wouldn't have guessed you were referencing Miroslav Holub--though what poem? Enjoyed your Australian usages and slang. Don't quite get the references within the worlds of Pink Floyd and Ry Cooder although I attended the first performance of Pink Floyd in San Francisco and went out of my way to acquire the British pressing of their first LP, convinced by spacey disc jockeys on the first FM progressive r & r station in the U.S., KMPX. However, Terry Riley's In C, which I believe I heard first on Larry Miller's 12 midnight to 6am slot on KMPX-FM has grown in interest for me. I'd recommend these two versions of In C and many other compositions by him as a minimalist grid for writing, in addition to their physiological value. THE WHO paid homage in "Baba O'Riley":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTn79x-mrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX96z7AuICs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g
Barry Alpert
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:31:07 +1000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thanks, Doug. Appreciate it.
>
>Bill
>
>On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 2:01 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> Ross might’ve been fine, Bill, but it’s the details of this memory that
>> count, & I think that’s one of th thins you do well these days. Settling
>> into that past as present (the tenses).
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> > On Apr 29, 2020, at 5:10 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks, Patrick. My memories, even this one are snippetish too but
>> > punctuated often by music. The lad in question was not really Miro in
>> fact
>> > but I had just read a cracker of a poem by Miroslav Holub and I decided
>> to
>> > dignify plain old Ross with something like the poet’s moniker.
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 8:50 pm, Patrick McManus <
>> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> gosh you have a good memory -seems a lot of my past is in tiny snippets
>> >>
>> >> of course the title falsely led me to another Miro
>> >>
>> >> On 28/04/2020 22:57, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> >>> Why do you find yourself remembering
>> >>>
>> >>> an afternoon
>> >>>
>> >>> of all afternoons
>> >>>
>> >>> when you had lunch at Miro’s place
>> >>>
>> >>> lunch consisting for you
>> >>>
>> >>> of Mum-cut sandwiches
>> >>>
>> >>> from a brown paper bag
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Sitting cross-legged
>> >>>
>> >>> on unpolished floorboards
>> >>>
>> >>> opposite Miro
>> >>>
>> >>> eating something like fried rice
>> >>>
>> >>> both of you listening
>> >>>
>> >>> to records he put on
>> >>>
>> >>> by musicians you’d never heard of
>> >>>
>> >>> Some guy called Ron Geesin with
>> >>>
>> >>> Floydless Roger Waters
>> >>>
>> >>> Music for the body
>> >>>
>> >>> and rhythm from pluckety Ry Cooder who
>> >>>
>> >>> Had a friend Louie Brown, he was a deacon,
>> >>>
>> >>> Just as wise as he could be
>> >>>
>> >>> Now you realise he could read the Good Book
>> >>>
>> >>> back from Revelation down to Genesee
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Upstairs above a shop
>> >>>
>> >>> in Hawthorn perhaps
>> >>>
>> >>> you sat in the midst of stuff
>> >>>
>> >>> stacked side tables
>> >>>
>> >>> unmatched chairs
>> >>>
>> >>> unframed canvases on walls
>> >>>
>> >>> scarves bright and drab
>> >>>
>> >>> materials splayed on the floor
>> >>>
>> >>> the vast room apparently cornerless
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> You smoke rollies
>> >>>
>> >>> passing the Drum packet between you
>> >>>
>> >>> trams rolling past outside
>> >>>
>> >>> Miro brushes unwashed long
>> >>>
>> >>> ginger locks from his face
>> >>>
>> >>> as he talks without rush
>> >>>
>> >>> Miro letting ash fall unnoticed to the floor
>> >>>
>> >>> as he listens to you
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> You were not friends before this
>> >>>
>> >>> or after
>> >>>
>> >>> although you part
>> >>>
>> >>> as far as you remember
>> >>>
>> >>> on good terms
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Many a class you wagged
>> >>>
>> >>> lunched at many other kids’ places
>> >>>
>> >>> your friends
>> >>>
>> >>> but this afternoon
>> >>>
>> >>> has slotted somewhere else
>> >>>
>> >>> this Miro-hosted time
>> >>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>> 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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>> drag yr mouldy old bones
>> up these stairs & tell me
>> what you died of,
>> I think
>> I’ve got it
>> too.
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