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Fair comment on the craft, Doug. A crafty draft without a title trying to move towards crafted. Bill On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 2:56 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Maybe slightly crafty, Bill, but to the point. For sure. > > Doug > > > On Mar 26, 2019, at 8:30 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > Stunning essay, Millicent. Thanks for alerting me to it. > > > > https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3824&context=iowareview > > > > I liked, among much else, the notion of poetry being ‘a loud stage > whisper’ > > but also (paradixically?) the George Oppen fragment she quotes, that > > writing should seek ‘not to make a noise: to keep one’s attention outward > > towards silence.’ > > > > Not at all sure that my drafty sonnet moves anywhere near Boruch, nor > > anything she examines. But I will re-read for much of that discussion of > > poetic impetus and the role of memory. > > > > Bill > > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 9:16 am, Millicent Borges Accardi < > > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >> What about from the Marianne Boruch essay "Poetry's Old Air"? > >> > >> > >> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon > >> > >> http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com > >> @TopangaHippie on TwitterÁgua mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > >> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]> > >> Sent: Tue, Mar 26, 2019 3:11 pm > >> Subject: Sonnet needing a title > >> > >> What has become of the careful posted word? > >> > >> Once blood drove ink and often paused for thought. > >> > >> Now keys are grazed and to the Web referred - > >> > >> e-mail will do if all you want is blurt. > >> > >> > >> What now the role of banter face-to face? > >> > >> How much are eyes and ears and touch required? > >> > >> At one remove, print words leave their clear trace, > >> > >> Evidence engraved, unvocally mired. > >> > >> > >> On-page words in a sentence invented > >> > >> penetrate deeper than those wagged by chin. > >> > >> Something there clings to a message cemented, > >> > >> the uttered word more of a bulletin. > >> > >> > >> Best of all, poems are rarely outdone, > >> > >> tap dancing on screens, on paper and tongue. > >> > >> > >> bw > >> > >> 27.3.19 > >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations > 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > Listen. If (UofAPress): > > > The outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your > apartment into a taxicab. > > Fran Lebowitz > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1