[Leica] Leica Poem

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

Hey, it's Poetic license!    I'm sure you'd like it better if you heard it.

http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/almanac/2007/05/12_wa

needs Realplayer

SonC

On 5/13/07, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Huh.
> This is the first I've heard of those guys shooting in
> Brooks Brothers suits. A bit of a wrong note there, if
> you ask me.
>
> >trying to steal
> > moments, not souls, to find the past
> >
> > inside the present, catch the already
> > falling out of fashion.
>
> I like that a lot better; it suggests that Faulkner
> qoute about the South's past not being dead.
>
> --- Bill Clough <bill_clough@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > USA
> > TEXAS
> > CORPUS CHRISTI
> > 12 May 2007
> >
> > Hi there--
> >
> >    This was featured on Saturday's "Writer's
> > Almanac."
> >
> > "American Image" by Sebastian Matthews
> >
> > I want to be Walker Evans
> > or Robert Frank setting up shots
> >
> > in the street?renegades
> > in Brooks Brothers suits
> >
> > with Leicas draped on their chests
> > snapping shots of the downtrodden,
> >
> > of churches, bits of billboard, bored
> > debutantes at posh parties
> >
> > you'd have to fast-talk your way into;
> > or aboard an ocean liner, itching
> >
> > to disembark; down in the boiler room
> > waiting for the foreman to look away
> >
> > so you can frame his profile
> > with an arabesque of pipes
> >
> > and release valves. I'd want to be out
> > on assignment taking far fewer rolls
> >
> > than I'm being paid for, down
> > south alongside sharecroppers
> >
> > and the sunburnt poor?trying to steal
> > moments, not souls, to find the past
> >
> > inside the present, catch the already
> > falling out of fashion.
> >
>