{"id":382,"date":"2015-02-20T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedavis.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2015-02-20T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:49:59","slug":"6-february-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/2015\/02\/6-february-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"February (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Craig,<\/p>\n

releasing your poems from line rhyme tyranny is a big step, as i am sure you know.\u00a0 are we using a language or does the language use us after all.\u00a0 poems should stand as a tree stands.\u00a0 it is appreciated by its colors, shape, motion and a poem should also.\u00a0 Sounds of some words are sufficient enough to have images attached to them.\u00a0 “mourn” is such a word.\u00a0 I have just rediscovered this magic of word sounds (rhymes)\u00a0 It is better to discover them from the free verse direction than the other way around, i think.<\/p>\n

it is february, they say.\u00a0 I only know the cold mornings wrapped in my winter garments looking at the frozen river.\u00a0 This is what they call winter, also.\u00a0 the eskimos refer to it as “season of night” (6 months – earth rotation etc.)<\/p>\n

Your letter Craig, reminds me of so many things.\u00a0 But mostly the times we are together these times we never get beyond this surface noise.\u00a0 But for me at least, it is the experience of talking rather than words themselves.\u00a0 Of course there is something beyond art between us.\u00a0 It is something superhuman — existing beyond words and personality.\u00a0 It is an essential sameness that many people speak of but which few experience.<\/p>\n

I have always spoken more clearly in my writing and so have you, Craig.\u00a0 maybe we are to be closest when the distance between us is greatest.\u00a0 Can it be true?<\/p>\n

I am enclosing another poem, about the third written this year.\u00a0 I love the sounds of the bells on a cold night.\u00a0 am working on a short sketch which i will send later, when it is finished.\u00a0 it is yet another version of “John worked in…” your short story which has dominated my story work for 2 years.\u00a0 maybe someday an expression will come close to the simple eloquence of your story.\u00a0 i continue to work.<\/p>\n

There isn’t much else for now.\u00a0 \"Can<\/a>Toboggon (or whatever)<\/p>\n

Larry
\n6 February, 1972<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 Can a poem really sit on a desk with feeling?\u00a0 it’s true<\/p>\n

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Re-reading this, I was surprised that Lawrence regarded anything I wrote as a model — for me it was always the other way around. – CHC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Craig, releasing your poems from line rhyme tyranny is a big step, as i am sure you know.\u00a0 are we using a language or does the language use us after all.\u00a0 poems should stand as a tree stands.\u00a0 it is appreciated by its colors, shape, motion and a poem should also.\u00a0 Sounds of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}