http://ddinafriedman.com/excavation/2007/06/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://ddinafriedman.com/excavation/2007/06/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Charles Ramie Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:29:54 +0000 http://ddinafriedman.com/blog/?p=10#comment-6 I like the concrete metaphor. I use 'sculpting' for my work. The material (Oppen, The Materials) pours out as a piece, seemingly by itself. A large stone I have quarried out of...where? I sculpt it into submission, forcing it to be what it demands to be. Sometimes it comes out like Gaudier-Brzeska, sometimes like an overpass on the Gowanus Expressway. I usually reserve archaeology for the therapy sessions. As I understand it you have an MSW. True? I am also an MSW/MFA type. I live near New York but I'm strictly an out-of-town midwesterner. I'm not patient either, but sometimes it takes me fifteen years to finish a poem. I like the concrete metaphor. I use ‘sculpting’ for my work. The material (Oppen, The Materials) pours out as a piece, seemingly by itself. A large stone I have quarried out of…where? I sculpt it into submission, forcing it to be what it demands to be. Sometimes it comes out like Gaudier-Brzeska, sometimes like an overpass on the Gowanus Expressway. I usually reserve archaeology for the therapy sessions. As I understand it you have an MSW. True? I am also an MSW/MFA type. I live near New York but I’m strictly an out-of-town midwesterner. I’m not patient either, but sometimes it takes me fifteen years to finish a poem.

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