Yes, Doug, and I am unlikely to paraphrase it, even if I could. I must
admit I like poems that can't be paraphrased: a poem that is a poem and
couldn't be in prose is one of my 'highest' aims. (Not always one I reach, I
hasten to add.)
I always like going back to a minimalist style: this one prompted by reading
a Rae Armantrout poem, I think it was. I went to echo her poem and was
caught up in my own thoughts (post flu fever, etc, contributing). I shall
listen to all and take another look at it.
Another influence was the fact that I have a small book on the horizon: I
have seen the proofs, and the presses are whirring in daylight hours. It
should be in hand by Tuesday, which is during our National Poetry Week. The
International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University is
publishing it, so it is a small collection of 'poems about place', titled
BEYOND CITY LIMITS. The reason this is an influence is that I habitually
search for new ways of saying things when the former ways have been wrapped
up between the covers. Sadly I fall back very quickly on my old ways, but
often I carry an element of new style into the post-publishing mix.
Watch this space >g<
Andrew
2009/8/27 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> C'mon Judy, 'paraphrase'? That's the last thing any good poem wants or
> needs, surely...?
>
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> A little mystery in art is a good thing, I think...
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> Doug
> On 27-Aug-09, at 7:07 AM, Judy Prince wrote:
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> Now make it clear to me what you're saying; i.e., paraphrase your poem.
>> Other folk may see immediately your point[s], but I don't see any except
>> little unconnected bits.
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> There are as many fools in the world as there are people.
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> Sigmund Freud
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Andrew
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