Yes, it does.
Also like the simplicity (that isnt), those small changes....
Doug
On 2013-10-10, at 2:05 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Like it Mark. It builds up an intensity.
>
>
> On 10 October 2013 02:55, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Andrew.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Oct 9, 2013 9:38 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: new ebook
>>>
>>> I really liked yr Sometimes poem. Reread it a number of times - excellent.
>>> More readings later. Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 October 2013 03:37, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Thirty-Two Short Poems for Bill
>>>> Bronk, plus One” by Mark Weiss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Description:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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’.
>>>>
>>>> Available as a free ebook here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/THIRTY-TWO%20SHORT%20POEMS%20FOR%20BILL%20BRONK,%20PLUS%20ONE.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Full Argotist Ebooks catalogue here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Ebooks%20index.htm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
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>>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>>
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