Dennis Hollingsworth

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Jim Murray sends his regards:

O..sweet..i dig the scraped off italian-fresoco-pink parts!..off of the
predominant...kiwi-goes-a-rustin>.{green} and the photoes....d-liscious!!..i
feel my inner is scabbing some great feelings about color from ur pics..!.

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but..btw..it is a groove that u are fiddling with word/colors..like
green..i started some stuff more than a year ago..and hopefully I can get
some ckind of a baseboard heater in the old school ho?se or im shot cuz by
mid december all the paint and freeze up and im shot till a few weeks past
groundhog day when the THAW commmences..like I wuz sayin..i staretd these
things where the launchthoughtboard was a poem abo?t color..ie: from carl
snadbergs poem that its a beautiful da? made a song called white bird I
started a "white one"..then a got some from penn warren...then a bunch from
a fine peot (born in iowa) amy clampitt shes outasite..a great
wordpainterarticulator...so when I se ur bit this p.m. I sez "massive
groove", gotta share this with the color-gush-meister denny!!!

from a review of amys book ..

Clampitt's gravely luminous fifth volume of poems dwells, with an
extraordinary certainty of language, on the uncertain texture of living.
Color suffuses an evocative sequence of poems: in "White," that color of
"the mirror-haunch of / pronghorn" leads next, in "Green," to the
"half-membranous / sheen of birth" and then, in "Thinking Red," to "the
clotted winter melancholy / of the sumac; hawthorn encrimsoned, / dogwood
beaded." Finally, in "Nondescript," even the lack of color approaches an
"in-betweenness, this process that's less / an advent than it is a wandering
vaguely."

hmmmm
Later, gotta get some 7th grade posters over to the count? conservation
board for the annual contest..got some good ones this year , kids oughta win
something???////
ps..finally getting some nice cold single digit weather and some snow as
well..i love it..the color of the left over ,unharvested corn is solid
flesh!..against the deeper periwinkle winter sky..would make old harbinger
of modern something rubens gush...ha
later, jimmy murray from hog heaven...

(I Google Amy Clampitt.)

Thanks for the Amy C. tip, Jim!

The great thing about color is that it resists theory, and so it takes a lot of words to try to lasso them down. Color is free.

Its kind of like the Spanish language in that while the vocabulary is smaller than English, Spanish wordsmiths have a great time wrapping and rewrapping palabras around experience. A short paragraph in English when translated might take pages in Spanish to convey the same thought. Good for nuance, not so good for science perhaps. ( This, a pet theory of mine, unconfirmed as yet.)

Hog Heaven sounds like a nice place to live.
Thanks for the note and all the best to your 7th graders at the couty contest!

-D