Actually my rate has been slower than usual ... This is psychologically a
weird time to write; it was easier, in a way, under Bush, thinking that
everyone Out There was a fundamentalist, nationalist nut. Thinking No,
they're more complex and various than that, and that I myself (gasp) might
have to take some responsibility for how things turn out ... Apart from
bronchitis/flu, end of the semester, economic worries etc., this new more
complex perspective makes poetry more difficult. (Which is a good thing, of
course.) In "Linz" I was circling back to my native pessimism. Hoping that
history proves me wrong.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: 3 poems
> Youre awfully prolific, Frederick; hard to keep up (& envious).
>
> I like these; the various voices, rally, as well as the awareness in
> each.
>
> Many of us are pretty well slotted into the perspective of s/he who
> speaks 'Linz.'
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> let us make an anthology of recipes
> let us edit for breakfast
> our most unspeakable appetites --
> . . . . .
> let us answer hunger
> with boild chimera
> and apocalyptic tea,
> an arcane salad of spiced bibles,
> tossed dictionaries --
>
> Gwendolyn MacEwen
>
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