Tuesday, October 09, 2007

"swallow a dose of luminous waffle"



In a sense it was all his fault.

Had I not read Miles' article on Ted Berrigan in 'Parataxis' I'd not have discovered Berrigan. And if I'd not read Berrigan I'd not have read ... and so on ad infinitum. And had I not read 'Compositional Bonbons Placate' I'd not have sought out 'Three Bell Zero' and 'Facture' and coveted this volume in the Poetry Library on the South Bank.

Having exhausted all other options, it occurred to me to do a search through AbeBooks and yesterday there it was waiting in the post room.

He makes it all seem so simple.

(but it isn't).

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