What fun! Thanks, Barry, for the diastic - a form I've never tried. (And
clever Doug for spotting it!) I'll have a go when I've stopped with the
domestics - who ever said retirement was bliss! (Do writers ever retire?)
Andrew
On 21 July 2011 03:03, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Actually a diastic, a form invented by Jackson MacLow, which
> I often try to weld to the sonnet. Very difficult to keep in mind the
> positions of the letters within words during a live talk or during a film,
> but here I had my source interview on the computer screen as I chose
> language units.
>
> Barry
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:47 -0600, Douglas Barbour <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Neatly done, & sneaky indented acrostic, Barry.
> >
> >Doug
> >On 2011-07-20, at 12:08 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> >
> >> NAM JUNE PAIK DAY
> >
> >Douglas Barbour
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> >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
> >
> >It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
> strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> inadequacies.
> >
> > William H. Gass
>
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Andrew
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