From: Robert Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
To: Richard Caddel <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 18 June 1999 17:19
Subject: Re: Windy Stair?
| I love to watch people listening -- I learn a lot about my work
|and other people's by watching audiences --subtle or naive-- react/
|respond/ reject/ light up in answer to the Stimulus of Voice.
Yes!
.
|A reading is not just the
|inscription of the poem into empty space. It is a triangulation from the
|page to the audience by way of.... well, by way of my luvverly voice and
|your luvverlier ears and the espresso machine and the traffic outside and
|the dogs
.
Yes!
.
| -- dogs are very common in American poetry venues --
ours are quite refined and, after due consideration, tend to stay away
.
.
L
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