But Patrick, you're supposed to be outraged at the appropriation of your
intellectual property!
It's really nice. It reminded me of one of Gael Turnbull's late chapbooks,
Might a Shape of Words. Here (it is a prose-poem):
READING ANOTHER MAN'S autobiography, he wonders how much has been improved
by memory, even fabricated, or what significant details just not recorded.
If he were to attempt the same account, would the result be more honest or
more misleading, deliberate or otherwise?
A few days later he receives a note from his sister -- 'I thought you might
like to have this' -- enclosing a letter written to her half a century ago.
As he reads, he can hardly recognise the young man it reveals: in harmony
with himself and the world, even generous to others. Yet his memory of those
days is totally different: of someone inarticulate, indecisive and, at the
same time, intolerably conceited.
MIGHT A SHAPE OF WORDS
and other transmutations
Mariscat Press, 2000
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> Behalf Of Patrick McManus
> Sent: 13 December 2007 12:28
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> Subject: 'The Door' the movie
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> Hi all this has just arrived am very excited -some one looked in Amsterdam
> Library found a poetry book found my poem made a little movie
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> Cheers Patrick
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> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HL91uGhY3wo
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