On 5 September 2011 18:17, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Hal
>
> and also to Doug and Andrew. Thanks all for your kind words.
>
> As to publishing myself, that worries *and I do it. I do it when I have
> tested a text with people I respect. UNFRAMED GRAPHICS, which I started
> selling Saturday and which I shall announce here once I have established
> postage, has been cooking for years, being read, being passed around on
> typescript... The final stage was, in this case, to...
>
> well, I was looking to find a backer for a new printed Cobbing and the
> target asked about anything I had. & said they'd finance it
>
> (Previously, two presses had said yes and no - one said they really wanted
> to do it but had forgotten to tell me and now had no money!!! I try to
> take all this as non-combative)
>
> Then, I sent the typescript to Peter Manson, whose insight and judgment
> are quite cuddly; and he liked it and wrote me a blurb.
>
> In such circumstances, I am willing to extend my wf editorial wand and
> publish me
>
> I'm wary of doing that too much. I'd be wary of publishing too much from
> one source at the same time. I'm not sure that Google Docs is the way to
> go but i shall look and think and consult. I AM grateful for the spirit of
> the suggestion. It is buoying me up.
>
> The other thing is that there are many facets to the landscape project and
> I propose with your fortitude to continue exposing them. Probably too big
> to make one book, but quite how to divide it is another matter.
>
> Exposing myself to you all here, is part of a process of seeing my poems
> more clearly. It's like writing and nurturing a poem and then seeing how
> to rewrite ten minutes before reading it - the pressure brings the clarity
>
> I imagine you'll understand what I mean. Maybe until I have done that, I
> shan't know.
>
> A call from the publishing fairy would spur me; otherwise i go
> tentatively, trying one paw forward and then another, but not putting too
> much weight on anything
>
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, September 3, 2011 15:49, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> > What Patrick said. Get on over to Google Docs and publish yourself.
> >
> >
> >
> > Serving the tri-state area.
> >
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> >
> >
> > [log in to unmask] http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > http://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/home
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > *Remains To Be
> > Seen<
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tII1LvsGmJpmLby_dyie77p3D2u2sAwc
> > JL3TuW5T-nY/edit?hl=en_US>
> > , Sonnets from the Basque & Other
> > Poems<
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16pWoy7FBSWyCLWpz0hhI-i0BOYjSBeUi
> > qfWBmJF3g64/edit?hl=en_US> , Mainly
> > Black<
> https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1i_JGJ_FqQldEnUq7cwjV8giYy
> > kz_tsGbTkC2EkAP3IM&hl=en&pli=1#> , **Obras
> > Públicas<
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obr
> > as-publicas> ; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other
> > Sonnets<
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-
> > OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets>
> > ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> > Clones<
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/09
> > 65404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1>
> > ; **Tango
> > Bouquet<
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mn
> > h3Zw&hl=en> ; **Theory of
> > Harmony<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.co
> > m/fall04/theory1.pdf> ; **Rapsodie
> > espagnole<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace
> .
> > com/rapsodi.pdf> ; **Guide to the Tokyo
> > Subway<
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/
> > ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3> ; **The Sonnet
> > Project<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.co
> > m/hsonnet.pdf> ; **G(e)nome
> > <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter
> > Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan
> > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>;
> > *
> > *Transparencies & Projections
> > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> > *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> L -------A diamond! Pearl! Ruby! Isn't that enough
> >> Book anthology volume tome tract manual novel directory scroll clay
> >> tablets -stop nitpicking and get on with it!
> >> Cheers your friend P
> >> Sod publishers you don't need them -give it to the world ! even go inter
> >> galactic starting now -could they be published in Cornish fortune
> >> cookies??
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> >> Sent: 03 September 2011 12:57
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: by Trendrine Hill
> >>
> >>
> >> This is a gem?
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh good
> >>
> >>
> >> If you mean a book(s) then yes I hope to....
> >>
> >>
> >> Calling all publishers
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks, Patrick
> >>
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, September 3, 2011 12:45, Patrick McManus wrote:
> >>
> >>> You must put these gems into an anthology
> >>> Cheers old P
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>> On
> >>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> >>> Sent: 03 September 2011 10:17
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: by Trendrine Hill
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> gate smashed, in rust;
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> under bracken, wood flowers;
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> wind song; water howl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----
> >>> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> -----
> 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
>
--
Andrew
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