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I'll have to give you that one, Patrick L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:53:56 -0000 Subject:Re: wrack by Lawrence Upton Cor I thought that it was that bendy stuff kids make models with p -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 26 November 2012 16:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: wrack by Lawrence Upton Lot of ice L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:53:52 -0600 Subject:Re: wrack by Lawrence Upton If I could select my age, I think I'd choose the Pleistoscene. "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." --John Stuart Mill Hal Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] Poems by Others . . . On Barcelona (submissions sought; email to my address above) Truck (no submissions; new drivers/editors monthly) Entropy and Me Images without Words Hal & Lynda's homepage Hamilton Stone Editions Hamilton Stone Review Vida Loca Books Sonnets from the Basque & Other Poems *, *Mainly Black , *Obras P blicas ; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones ; **Tango Bouquet ; **Theory of Harmony ; **Rapsodie espagnole ; **Guide to the Tokyo Subway ; **The Sonnet Project ; **G(e)nome ; **Winter Journey ; **Eclipse ; **The Dance of the Red Swan ; **Transparencies & Projections * On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > > A free e-book of Lawrence Upton's WRACK is available from _Quarter > After_ press in USA. Download it from _Issuu_. > > You need to join _Issuu _to download; but it is relatively mild and > apparently relatively benign data capture; they let you select your > age. > > Download: > > http://issuu.com/quarterafter/docs/upton_wrack > > Quarter After home site: > > http://quarterafter.org/2012/11/24/wrack-lawrence-upton/ > > WRACK contains three sets of writing: _I wrack_, _Intimacies_ and > _pages from a book of the dead._The writing is solo and polyvocal, > variously and sometimes simultaneously. There are multivoice texts; > and a range of visual texts. > > Chris Goode writes: > > I CAN T LEAVE WRACK ALONE, I KEEP RETURNING, MAKING SURE I VE > TAKEN IT ALL IN, AND OF COURSE I HAVEN T, AND IT S BECOMING > OVERWHELMING. I DEEPLY ADMIRE THIS WORK FOR HOW SUSTAINED IT IS, AND > HOW VARIOUS ARE ITS MOVEMENTS; I ENVY IT AND RECOIL FROM IT BECAUSE IT > TURNS OUT TO BE, FRANKLY, SHOCKING IN ITS COURAGEOUS INSISTENCE ON > PUTTING THE BODY WHERE THE MOUTH IS. UPTON SETS THE READER TO SERIOUS > DANCING ACROSS DISPUTED BORDERS, BETWEEN THE LINES OF AN EXHAUSTED > OFFICIAL DISCOURSE WHOSE STICKMAN SPOKESMEN HAVE NO BODY TO DANCE > WITH. WRACK SHOCKS MORE BECAUSE ITS SHOCKS COME SLOWLY, SURFACING > PATIENTLY THROUGH STRATA OF THE MATTER BEING DEALT WITH. VOICES > MULTIPLY, WORDS DIVIDE; STILLNESS AND MOBILITY KEEP CLINCHING EACH > OTHER IN THE SAME ACT. IT S LOVE MADE REAL IN THE COMPOUND EYE OF > ATTENTION, IN THE WEAL OF HEED NOT QUITE YET SPEECHLESS. ALL OF THE > LAWRENCE UPTONS YET KNOWN TO US AND ONE OR TWO STILL ARRIVING CONVERGE > IN THESE TEXTS, IN THIS SHIFTING BODY OF WORK, THE WRACK NOT LEFT > BEHIND. > > 93 pages > > download approx 1.6 Mb > > >