that's how
I propose
to leave it
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Sent: 19 August 2011 16:51
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Subject: Re: in a landscape
that's how I propose to leave it
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On Fri, August 19, 2011 16:10, andrew burke wrote:
> I like it as a single. A
>
>
> On 19 August 2011 23:02, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Doug
>>
>>
>> and thank you once again
>>
>> I think I may just throw the whole bushel out with you liking this
>> stuff - i'll keep posting
>>
>> not much to say on this but
>>
>> the last line is set as one (showing my age! who talks of setting a
>> line now) but, yes, it almost makes it to three... 2 and a half
>>
>>
>> On Fri, August 19, 2011 15:42, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> Nice, Lawrence. This is how I ot it; is the last line supposed to be
>>> three?
>>>
>>> Like the allusion to Spicer there... that fits nevertheless into that
>>> space named so...
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-08-19, at 4:08 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> buried in air voice calloused hope out of range
>>>>
>>>> confined alert stone depth deadening beneath our feet
>>>>
>>>> bad acoustic and abandoned manned machine
>>>>
>>>> to be is to work brain's the engine housing echoes
>>>>
>>>> the skull is deaf connects the neck bone. execute.
>>>>
>>>> information loops the highway with emptiness
>>>>
>>>> a noose choking the nous with clattering readback
>>>>
>>>> buried in air, just the head knows aether
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press
>> _10
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>>> .html
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>> Goldsmiths, University of London
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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