Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, is the Robinson mentioned here
related - in spirit - to the Robinson used by Weldon Kees? Kees did
several of these robinson poems, IIRC. Kees' robinson isn't mentioned
in the article yet they do seem related, superficially at least.
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Weldon-Kees/3030
Roger
On 3/2/06, Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >Are these only in French? (Which I read). Or in English, too. They sound
> >fascinating - maybe a >good thing for Green Integer to pick up on if there
> >are no translations in print. And what is Keillor's >project?? Thanks,
> >Stephen
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I was thinking mostly of a French volume Le dépays , long out of print
> (1982) - it combined little essays with photographs. A number of marker
> texts are online (perhaps he prefers publishing that way? and in the memory
> CD-ROM?) such as three scripts (including Letter from Siberia which works
> well as written piece on its own) here:
>
> http://www.markertext.com/index.htm
>
> and there's also a short story Phenomenom here:
>
> http://www.silcom.com/~dlp/Passagen/cm.home2.html
>
>
> Patrick Keiller made two films in which two invisible characters (narrator
> and his flaneur friend referred to as "Robinson") wander around a landscape
> relayed to us as static shots - "London" ("walks" around the city) and
> "Robinson in Space" (a spiral around England, beginning at Reading - "a
> place which every year attracts a number of bibliophiles who have
> misunderstood the city's name" - and follows Defoe's route in Tour through
> the whole island of Great Britain. The films are funny and strangely moving.
> I interviewed Keiller here about them
>
> http://www.kamera.co.uk/interviews/a_quick_chat_with_patrick_keiller.php
>
> but asked the wrong questions and, i think, misunderstood his projects
> entirely (tho I was long familiar with them), which i regret as it turns out
> he rarely does interviews- and I blundered in.
>
> Best,
>
> Edmund
>
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