Thanks, Andrew.
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>From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 9, 2013 9:38 PM
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>Subject: Re: new ebook
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>I really liked yr Sometimes poem. Reread it a number of times - excellent.
>More readings later. Andrew
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>On 10 October 2013 03:37, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Thirty-Two Short Poems for Bill
>> Bronk, plus One” by Mark Weiss
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>> Description:
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>> William Bronk's work is characterized by extreme care. Metaphors are few
>> and deployed gingerly, and the matter of daily life enters most often just
>> enough to suggest a context. And his concerns are almost exclusively with
>> final things: on the fugitive nature of both the self and any kind of
>> external reality, Being as if lost in the chaos of before the Biblical
>> creation. 'What we want is a here with a meaning' he says in one of his
>> poems, and goes on to demonstrate that we can't have it.
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>> Of this collection of poems inspired by Bronk’s writing practice, Mark
>> Weiss says, ‘Few of these poems dedicated to his practice really attempt to
>> achieve it, and he probably would have found most of them in different ways
>> totally scandalous. Rather, they seem to me to dance around his work as a
>> fixed point. It's in fact “Sometimes,” a poem outside the group, that may
>> come closest to Bill's poetry, though longer than all but a few of his, and
>> I've chosen to place it immediately after them, as a sort of envoi’.
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>> Available as a free ebook here:
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>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THIRTY-TWO%20SHORT%20POEMS%20FOR%20BILL%20BRONK,%20PLUS%20ONE.pdf
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>> Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
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>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Ebooks%20index.htm
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>Andrew
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