blaming themselves without accepting responsibility. Tony Blair comes to
mind
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 26 November 2014 16:49
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Subject: Re: stil life
It's enough to make anyone coke, bless your fingers. I suppose it is tv doc,
yes,video as oppose to hollywood, "real" as opposed to staged - do you know
Patten's projectionists nightmare?
I forget what it was called in the working file. I have been tinkering with
it these last few days but had to open it again to find the title! That was
"untitled"; and I was dissatisfied. Then I remembered still life, which is
where I started this bout of writing / rewriting maybe 18 months ago
Please forgive my opening
L
On 26 November 2014 at 16:16, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The pun of the title slipped past me, at first, L. I now take it to
> be a TV doc, seen & resisted perhaps, all that life stilled, all still
> there, l;coked in those pictures...
>
> D
> On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > large grey bunker; thin blue gun out of it --
> >
> > these are design considerations -- voice
> >
> > over -- the public relations' best people
> >
> > talking of deaths, blaming themselves without
> >
> > accepting responsibility. So much
> >
> > information on digital displays;
> >
> > mud sousing every duckboard; a broken
> >
> > bridge in the foreground; big manhatch thrown back
> >
> > atop a tank; someone's burned hand as calm
> >
> > as it's ever been; as it ever shall be;
> >
> > several crawl up there under shadows' cover
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> that we are only
> as we find out we are
>
> Charles Olson
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