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Anne Rouse wrote:
>I'd just like to
> back-paddle and express
> my pleasure in Pain's ode to K. Sutherland. Also,
> to answer Chris, I've heard
> Bob Cobbing at the Diorama, London, and thought he
> was stunning. I crept in
> while they were setting up and worried it might be
> a shambles, but as Bellow
> would say, he and Jennifer have the magics.
I've never seen Bob Cobbing in action. Though I'd love to.
Andrew Duncan wrote in Angel Exhaust 9 p.105:
"It's unpleasant sitting on a train with a baby crying ... It's unpleasant
waiting in freezing cold ... where many lorries grind and roar as their
engines start up together. but all of this is really very pleasant compared
to listening to Bob Cobbing's sound poetry, the world's ugliest noise. ...
The experience of pain, terror, and nausea while undergoing this is partly
due, I suppose, to ...."
I find this fascinating. That sound poetry can provoke such a profound and
primal response. Sounds like one of those Tibetan exercises where they
frighten the maracas off a novice monk. I think if I had such an energetic
reaction to something I'd be a major fan. Such an experience would be,
well, transformational at least, all that and no flashbacks.
>I've
> liked samplings I've seen
> of Susan Howe, Tina Darragh, and Grace Lake. Roy
> Fisher's Bloodaxe selection is
> beguiling. Caroline Bergvall reads beautifully.
Yes. I'd like to add Lee Ann Brown, Helen MacDonald, Jennifer Moxley,
Frances Presley, Susan Schultz as an off-the-top-of-my-head
I've-been-reading-these-this-week addition to the growing list of fine
emerging poets. (The emerging I'm not happy with, but I'll take the
opportunity to cheer)
> What do I like in general?--
> oh, a bit of drama, passion, maybe. A sense of
> project, perceptiveness, some
> awareness of collective concerns, a true regard
> for language and an openness
> to other art-forms.
Marvellous. This should be on the application form to any creative writing
course.
best wishes
Randolph Healy
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