Yeah, I can accept that, Lawrence. A long loose line, yet wanting those ends sometimes to mean.
Do you know Daphne Marlatt's great Steveston? Now, there's a long lined poem, almost prose but not, the breaks still doing work….
And I should have said that to begin with…
Doug
On 2011-09-13, at 12:06 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> er
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> and the words are left to take their lines for walks
>
> I knew what I meant!
>
> L
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> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from Barnoon just after dawn
> From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, September 13, 2011 19:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Hi, and thanks again for noticing!
>
> I have no thesis in saying this, but I don't think of it as prose, rather
> as poetry where rhythmic constraints are very greatly loosened and left to
> take their lines for walks
>
> L
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>
> On Tue, September 13, 2011 18:36, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Interesting prose poem, Lawrence, demonstrating an other way of getting
>> at the land, scaping it out.
>>
>> I especially liked 'Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.'
>>
>>
>> Then checked out 'town' in my OED, & yes.
>>
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-09-13, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> Sky sponged in with exceeding white, softening as it mixes. Scratches
>>> in the underlying board brought out by paint running in.
>>>
>>> Up to the first few degrees above the horizon, it’s brighter than the
>>> sea; a solitary boat a single mark in an exposed patch of gesso. There,
>>> nothing has changed pictorially, ever, a calm sea a calm sea. Close
>>> under the quay, there’s thick shadow broken by an all-white sailing
>>> boat.
>>>
>>> Birds feed on submerging sand.
>>>
>>>
>>> A flaw in the baseboard might be a chain or rope visible through the
>>> shallow water. Marker buoys wobble very slightly among the floating
>>> gulls.
>>>
>>> Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.
>>>
>>>
>>> The sun climbs from towans, highlighting a vertical con-trail radiating
>>> from its centre along with cloud ribbon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> Dept of Music
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> People say they have to express their emotions.
>> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
>> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>>
>> Berenice Abbott
>>
>>
>
>
> -----
> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
>
> -----
> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
Douglas Barbour
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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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
People say they have to express their emotions.
I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
you to express your emotions;
it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott
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