dear AK:
as a PYM fan-=-you will also like very much Eric Basso's
startling and "story-that-once-read-never-stops-haunting-you" THE BEAK
DOCTOR which included in a collection of that name:
THE BEAK DOCTOR Short Fiction 1972-76
(Paradise: Asylum Arts, 1999)
it's a masterpiece--
Eric Basso is from Baltimore--and PYM was inspired by Poe's
listening, while living in Baltimore and sharing an attic room with his
sailor brother, to the latter'
s tales told in delirium while dying from consumption,slowly and before
Poe's eyes, as later his wife was also to do and also from consumption
actually-- i never thought of thia before--the cannibalism in
PYM--another one of Poe's cruel pribate little punning jokes as:
"comsumption" devoured the bodies of his brother and wife--
but that wasn't why i first grabbed those two books to make
something to go with rhythm i felt in my head--
both books right by each other on little old fruite crate
shelf--and both bound in black with white images on them--
then realized--both from Baltimore!
pages chosen at random--just the first one in each book opened
to--
a mixture of chance and choice: as going through words and
selecting
them in their arrangements--they do have call and response--and as one
finds the way--a direction--
sent it to a friend later the day made it--and now learn will be a
chapbook or in a magazine in australia!
wonders of the world wide web , email etc--
one "loses oneself" in the voices--and they reappear in print on
other side of world--
meaning words do indeed have life of their own . . .
--dbc
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, ann klefstad wrote:
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> David Baptiste Chirot wrote:
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> > 25/10/00 pastel afternoon
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> > coal-age poem: BASSO POEFrOUNDo
> > a score for two or more
> > voices
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> Ah! Pym! That wonderful text. I don't know the other, have to look it up.
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> very very nice
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> AK
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