I agree but wouldn't they take a lot of stewing to make them halfway edible?
-although some are part premarinated!
P concerned
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Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
Maybe the real solution, pace Swift, is to feed poets to each other?
That would certainly bring down the poem proliferation problem...
xA
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> Stephen, you've put the real, the serious feeling, behind what I wrote
> better than I could myself. Thanks, loved it.
>
> On 23 April 2010 18:49, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I read recently that many are suffering from what is now called,
>> "information disease"- that is many live in a information swamped state
of
>> paralysis, including, I assume, what can be a swamp of poetry
publications,
>> photographs et al. I confess. I think I suffer from that disease. I can
>> spend hours looking closely at trees and birds - delightful in itself,
but a
>> relief from the constantly looming market bull dozer (ah, a pun!) of Art.
>> Personally I also like the solace of a well made book - one that creates
a
>> space around a small gathering of poems in which I can really
concentrate
>> on the there of there, and take its slowly or, however, as I want.
>> (Something that is much more ephemeral on a monitor) This is not to
reject
>> being once in my twenties and gobbling up everything in sight, poetry et
al.
>> That was necessary 'food' for flesh and bone. But I now I even get fed up
>> with 'critical pointers' - online review mags with 50 etc. reviews. Oy &
>> where to
>> start.
>>
>> So I kind of agree with the root disturbance behind David's proposal - as
>> in 'give us a break'.
>>
>> Then, again, frankly, I think there has always been a load of
particularly
>> young work that comes, and shortly disappears from public sight. Even
when
>> I remember (if that) of the work that I have quickly disposed without
even
>> 'going public.' As natural, I suspect, to the creative process as waves
that
>> rise with some power then crash and wash quite flatly back down the
beach.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:59 AM
>>
>> Not sure about that, Dave, as all they might notice would still be those
>> papers.
>>
>> I do recall Robert Duncan taking 15 years off from book publication,
while
>> writing some of his major late work; now that was both possible, & a
nervy
>> attempt to avoid too quick public review while exploring the
possibilities
>> of his poetic.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 23-Apr-10, at 2:42 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>> > as there would be no strictures against
>> > re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble
>> retrospectives
>> > and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and fastidiously
>> > examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other
than
>> if
>> > scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of
poets
>> to
>> > what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the
page.
>>
>> 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.h
tml
>>
>> The secret
>>
>> I was immediately set upon by two or three
>> critics, who hurled sophistries and
>> maledictions at me that were astonishing
>> in their dimness.
>>
>> Jorge Luis Borges
>>
>
>
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