Thursday, March 8, 2012

Cannon's Mouth

Well, my poem "Musing" should certainly be "cropped" and revised and trimmed, I have let myself go into the wilderness of writing with it as one day, in a marvellous letter Carole Baldock told me to do "write David, she said, for the hell of it..." It was the best encouragement I have ever received. By the way, buy the new, n.158, issue of Orbis and read about, in Carole's editorial, what happened to her and to possible readers or friends in the jungle of the internet and its deceptions...
Anyway I thank David King who has made the effort of reading the "cannonades" of my "Musing" and had to read it twice, sorry, to find a way, I imagine, in its entangled chaos of lines and suggestions...
talking about cannons, I found at my door coming back from work today the 43 issue, March 2012, of Cannon's Mouth with four of my most recent poems in it. Really a pleasant surprise also because I hadn't received, or maybe I had forgotten to have received, any communication about that.

4 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Congratulations on such success, Davide. It's funny how we sometimes fail to notice these things until they stare us in the face.

Dave King said...

Not to untangle anything in the way of mess and chaos, but to appreciate the layering. You must remember my advancing age and the limitations that puts on my grey matter. But no matter, reading more than once is a pleasure, not a chore. If it isn't I don't do it!

Tommaso Gervasutti said...
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Tommaso Gervasutti said...

Thank you Elisabeth and Dave.

Dave, thank you really for this further consideration.

Your advancing age, I have to say, does not seem to advance at all considering the clarity and precision of the poems in your posts.