... or perhaps even more rewriting /spacial reorientation: a poem i am just back from a marvellous family weekend where i nearly fell in love with a blonde astrophysicist and having spent four hours in the pub this afternoon noticed somebody mentioning ashbery he has two poems in the new lrb which i am not keen to read he strikes me as a carpet poet reading his verse is like struggling through a headful of gunge i debate whether he is really a poet at all but then i didnt read his work before he got famous i prefer frank o'hara who can be the most enjoyable fun and can write a poem On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:23:15 -0400 Philip Nikolayev <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Douglas, try a rewrite/spacial reorientation. Philip regards steve --------------------- http://www.fluoro.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%