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
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> 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
>
> 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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