I'm into that as a good idea
When I replied to Doug and agreed with him, just now, I wasn't thinking of
an OVERARCHING order; just an order that is a good order
I like the re-ordering that one can get with code.
I remember writing or speaking somewhere about the use of links and saying
that I'd prefer a loose leaf pile of paper because I preferred that as a
method of jump cutting.
A re-order to an algorithm that one cannot second guess would be welcome.
It might not please everyone who want to DO a set -- how could they be
sure they'd seen everything; how could they avoid seeing the same thing
twice -- but it would reflect one's experience of landscape
Immediately I think I shall pursue the idea of a (selected) book. I do
like books. A good friend was showing me her kindle a while back; I was
impressed; and I was thinking how much space I would make by not having
all my books... but -- and that was before I'd thought of the cost of one
But you are -- well Are you right, cris? You're not wrong. You're
certainly not wrong.
L
On Thu, September 8, 2011 17:18, cris cheek wrote:
> i'm not convinced that an overarching order is the way forwards with
> these pieces .
>
> i might prefer the idea that each time one visits the proposed sequence
> they are in a different order
>
> or that it is web-based and each time one goes to the page one sees a
> different poem
>
> or that it is on a tablet or some such and that poems are displayed at
> random as one turns the page ;=)
>
>
> xx
>
>
> cris
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> OK
>>
>>
>> There is a lot of work. I think I have some hope now of seeing some of
>> it into print as a collection and that after another's editorial eye has
>> looked at it. It's possible that an intelligent order can be found
>>
>> I'm not helping you in the way that I am presenting the poems, partly,
>> largely, a consequence of the time I have to spend on them; and I have
>> more time for that than many.
>>
>> A lot but not all of the short ones were composed in a narrow space of
>> time; and all of them have been written initially in time slices since
>> 2006, when I returned from St Ives as a permanent base; but that was
>> also the start of more extended stays on Scilly.
>>
>> So you are seeing them in, as a whole, disorder.
>>
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>> On Thu, September 8, 2011 16:16, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> One interesting aspet of this ongoing series, Lawrence, is my sense
>>> that a lot of these, linked, would make a kind of serial poem, or long
>>> poem, in which sections of different lengths accumulate into a broader
>>> sense of the landscape(s) as a whole.
>>>
>>> This would be one of the tiny inserts between larger ones,
>>> perhaps....
>>>
>>>
>>> How to organize them all, well, yeah: there's a lot of work to do, .
>>> . .
>>> but...
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2011-09-08, at 3:56 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
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