Alison
they've been practised cannibals for millenia :)
On 24 April 2010 09:48, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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.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
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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>
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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