Hi, Ladies: question for Alison, in addition to comment on workability
below--are you related to Moby, by any chance? When he smiled more than
usual last night on the MTV Awards show, he reminded me of you, toothwise.
I'm a really big fan of his music and worry that he's very sick....
C
on 8/7/02 1:35 PM, Leona Medlin at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi both Alisons (have I got that right?)
>
> Bonsai, of course, is not just about cutting back -- and for me that makes
> the analogy even more interesting. Thought 2: the moving between prose and
> poem sometimes works well in performance, where almost exclusively I find
> that mode these days. Modern examples, anyone?
>
> Leona
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>> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: a lurker unllurks
>> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:42:05 +1000
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>> Hi Alison -
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>> I'm interested in what makes it prose rather than poetry. What's the
>> borderline? In Basho's haibun the difference is quite clear, and the
>> writing moves from narrative to meditative allusion and back again,
>> through various devices ("...and then I wrote a poem"). There are
>> also texts like St John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul, where
>> the prose is exegesis of the poems - apparently it was a fairly
>> common mediaeval device. For me it's rather less clear, unless I'm
>> unambiguously writing a novel. But what about those tiny prose
>> pieces of Thomas Bernhardt, for instance? Sometimes they seem more
>> accurately to work like a poem.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A
In my experience (reckless, admittedly), it works more like 4-wheel drive X
troubleshooting--
>>> Alison
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>>> I empathise with the schizoid feeling, but find the writing process works
>>> differently. I am more inclined to write something brief and then cut it
>>> back to the essentials. Bonsai prose?
>>>
>>> Alison W
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