On Wed, 12 May 1999, Alex Davis wrote:
> On the subject of Billy Mills's "objectivism", It might be worth remarking
> that, in discussion during Cork '99, Billy firmly distanced his work from
> what Ric has called an "objectivist method".
- I'm a bit surprised - I'd've liked to've heard that. I've obviously been
misreading one or the other here. I'm always ready to start again...
> I share Ric's admiration for Geoffrey Squires' "Untitled Poem" in the
> latest Shearsman, though I would distinguish more carefully that Ric does
> between the ways in which Squires and Mills construct their respective
> sequences.
- OK, sorry if I implied 100% matching overlap here - my point was simply
that whilst a fragment may give some insight into origins of compositional
method (well I thought it did, anyway!) in both these authors one has to
consider the way the fragments hold together over the distance. As you say
there are some profound differences - but I'd agree with you that their
work -
"in very different fashions, expresses a belief in pre or
extra--linguistic experience, that langauge maps or attempts to
imperfectly chart"
- to me, that rings with Zukofsky's: "if not, why use words?"
RC
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