And then I have just been to a terrific reading by Erin Mouré, whom
many accuse of being too 'theoretical,' but she says she doesn't use
that term, maybe because she skipped university to read & write, &
learn to translate, for herself from the Galician, for some money from
the French (Canadian). She reads 'philosophy,' which she thinks is
close to poetry in many ways, & of course she means by that term such
philosophers as Derrida, Lyotard, Levinas, etc. Whom she reads as she
reads poems, for the insights that she does suddenly get, & for the
mystery.
So that's one way around the problem Dave was alluding to. And, yes,
then what I was alluding to is simply a form of learning, of studying
the craft, perhaps, but not only that. I mean I read all poetry with
two kinds of 'eyes,' those of the reader losing self in it, & those of
the writer, looking to see how it works & can I use any of that....
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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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
and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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