Nice one!
David Latane
--- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Who can say if it is worth the trouble? It is in
> the trouble itself that its worth, its truth, is
> held
> to reside: like forcing a clam, or forcing down
> an oyster, if you can imagine what that's like.
> I won't spare you the sarcasm as I have much
> to spare and all the time. It's good to spread.
> Globules of currency stifle and digest
> the ancient stone heads; take villages; erase
> whole children. The spirit starts from its old
> haunts.
> You pester us with this and say there's more -
> there is more, to be taken at a pinch. A jab
> of prose suffices us: skywriting or the carefully
> laid
> twig or torn leaf marking the track. Safety first,
> then numbers, then what? To the bunkers, fink.
>
> ---
>
> The first line of this was a response to the blurb
> on the back of the
> collected Prynne that came out a few years ago, in
> which someone -
> forget who - asserts that Prynne's poetry is both
> difficult and
> "worth the trouble".
>
> Dominic
>
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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