cris: I don't have any great insights into free-improv/poetry connections,
though, yes, syntax is important there too: I think of Bailey's
development of a nonlinear style, so that consecutive notes instead of
being as even in tone in possible are mixed up--open, fretted, harmonics. 
This means, among other things, that it's a completely reversible in
direction! -- Direct parallels usually are unconvincing to me, though it's
hard not to think of the similarities between one of Raworth's long poems
& an Evan Parker solo, say....  For what it's worth, it was 
Cook & Morton's quotation of Peter Riley in the entry for Company in the
_Penguin Guide to Jazz_ that made me go out & track the music down in the
first place.  (Talking about anthologies & overviews, the Cook & Morton
book is one of the _great_ ones--that's where I heard about AMM, Joe
McPhee, John Zorn--and Art Pepper, Larry Young....) -- Be interested to
hear your own or others' comments on free-improv.

Also would love to hear from you, Rob Sheppard & others about recent
publications. Was talking to Simon Perril the other day about _Clean &
Well Lit_: we'd both independently arrived at the opinion that "Survival"
goes off in rather a different direction from _Sentenced_ and _Eternal
Sections_-- though T.R. says he wasn't aware of doing this at the time
(sez Simon). Do other people agree?  I'm thinking of a greater coherence
here, a continuous self-reflexivity (which perhaps explains why the blurbs
on the back quote long swatches from "Survival"); the prevailing tense is
_present_, not the narrative past-tense that's home base for the earlier
parts; and throughout the book the lower-case "i" has disappeared. 


PS: yes, there's a Mass Observation here somewhere in my notebook!  Though
I fear it's not terribly observant: that day was spent hauling luggage
around after getting booted from an overbooked plane. --N

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					Nate Dorward  ([log in to unmask])
					website: http://is2.dal.ca/~ndorward/

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	Some of those general similarities between ear and fingertip
	remind us that, in its evolutionary and embryological development,
	the ear was derived from the skin.
					    --S. S. Stevens




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