Thanks, Doug.
It's amazing how much attention an anthology
gets, and how little poetry in English gets.
At 01:10 PM 8/6/2010, you wrote:
>Ha. Well, what can we say, but congratulations, again, Mark.
>
>Doug
>who will be away for a week or so, & probably not in a position much
>to check in....
>On 6-Aug-10, at 8:51 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>Check out Chris Andrews' review in the July 30 TLS of my anthology
>>The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry. In a word, he calls
>>it "magnificent."
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>
>Douglas Barbour
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>Latest books:
>Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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>http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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>if you dribble past five defenders, it isnt called sheer prose
>
> Tom Leonard
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 storiesthe 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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