tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098564718798953837.post742525483586759536..comments2020-09-09T22:56:56.644+10:00Comments on Sparks From Stones: Walking ghostsDavid Lumsdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04483172967435196277noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5098564718798953837.post-86616191681672615122009-01-03T19:40:00.000+11:002009-01-03T19:40:00.000+11:00Dear David, Good to read you on Clive Faust... And...Dear David, Good to read you on Clive Faust... And if I may, I'll take up your 'ghost' theme and apply it to the man himself, and it does apply wider, widely even... That is, so many poets outside of the mainstream, there to be read, who arent generally read (even as we all agree that mainstream poetry's audience is relatively small, at least in the English-speaking world, which in terms of numbers makes the term something of a joke), so Clive and many others are ghosts in the world, there but not there... The web is a great connector and to an extent can & does make visible what ordinarily would remain hidden, but Clive probably doesnt have a computer or if he does isnt connected! The benefit to him is nothing to distract from his own course; the negative is that he possibly isnt exposed to the on-going adventure even of his own type of poetry, though he does hear from his correspondents and he has read the massive online issues of Origin magazine which Bob Arnold has produced as a completion if not extension to Cid Corman's original project --something I havent yet done (I simply dont have the technology required to download such huge files)! But the Corman project itself is kind of ghostly if what I think of as the mainstream is the principal action. I know there's Jacket magazine, but where else would "Objectivists" & co be current? And I mean a particular kind of picking at language to get at a sense of the world that doesnt forsake material detail for the ideas, in fact weaves detail & idea or nominal particulars & abstractions in such a way as they're more or less reversible! And now I dont know what i mean, except that I want to praise your wide range of reading and of appreciation across styles that makes Clive Faust much less of a ghost than he might otherwise be!Cheers, Kris Hemensleycollectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.com