Deeply saddened to hear this. Douglas was a brave man and a fine poet.
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On 24/07/2010, at 7:49 AM, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
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> One of the world's quiet gentlemen, I'll miss seeing him in
> Darlington around Christmas.
> Proud to have published some of his poetry.
>
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> Jules de Gaultier
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]
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> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: R.I.P Douglas Clark
>
>
> A lovely man. So sad.
>
> At 05:24 PM 7/23/2010, you wrote:
>> On 7/23/2010 5:19 PM, deborah russell wrote:
>>> Douglas sent me one of his poetry books a few years ago. I'll miss
>>>
>>> his messages. He was such an interesting and thoughtful person.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Sally, for sharing this information. Be well.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I had no idea he was ill, or THAT ill. He seemed reticent when it
>> came to talking about himself.
>> May he rest in peace and free of a troubled life.
>>
>> Ken
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>
> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>
>
> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a
> lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the
> poet alive in every sense of the word, and
> through every one of his senses. Instead of
> missing a beat or a part, Weiss' fragments are
> like Chekhov's short stories the more that gets
> left out, the more they seem to contain. One can
> hear echoes from all the various
> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its
> core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment
> is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
> musical threnody.[it] opens a window, not only
> into a mind, but a person, a personality, this
> human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>
> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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