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One of the world's quiet gentlemen, I'll miss seeing him in Darlington around Christmas. Proud to have published some of his poetry. Roger Collett Arrowhead Press http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." Jules de Gaultier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: Re: R.I.P Douglas Clark A lovely man. So sad. At 05:24 PM 7/23/2010, you wrote: >On 7/23/2010 5:19 PM, deborah russell wrote: >>Douglas sent me one of his poetry books a few years ago. I'll miss >> >>his messages. He was such an interesting and thoughtful person. >> >>Thank you, Sally, for sharing this information. Be well. >> >> > >I had no idea he was ill, or THAT ill. He seemed reticent when it came to talking about >himself. >May he rest in peace and free of a troubled life. > >Ken New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss' fragments are like Chekhov's short storiesthe more that gets left out, the more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem." M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml