Part of an intriguing new series, then, Lawrence? Interesting the way
the verses set up an anomie, a distance, etc....
Doug
On 19-Mar-10, at 3:00 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Auschwitz uses up our time.
> It thins the hours. It pulls down
> energy and expectation
> to dust being swept away
> for processes of continuity.
>
> Politeness wearies me.
> And all of us. (I know that.)
> Procedure gets into it,
> More of same. We all know that.
> Which stretches out life skinny.
>
> One smiles within one’s neat clothes.
> One feels as though one’s head’s bruised
> on its inside; and wounded
> in much more than bloody ways.
>
>
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
> what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
> Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
Douglas Barbour
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