CONVERSATION
Author: Ratcliffe, Stephen
2011
978-0-9821600-6-0
twelve dollars
Plein Air Editions # 3, curated by Tyler Doherty & Tom Morgan
“In these seeming stage directions for the ‘play of the moment’ the characters face each other in multiple scenes of house, water, land and weather. The whole story rumbles through like a relentless flow of time out of time. If the story tells you it happened, it happened. It won’t let you down, you can rely on that.”
Joanne Kyger
“For some time now it has been my pleasure to be reading Stephen Ratcliffe’s writings every day, and at the same time to be enjoying an ongoing conversation with Stephen about this very interesting work he has been writing (‘thinking what it means to be having this conversation’), which I have been reading, and thinking about, as one thinks about what is being said between oneself and a friend. So I would stress that it is the engaging quality of dailiness in Stephen’s writing, and the engaging way it has of leading to, and sustaining, conversation, that I find most satisfying. This writing and this conversation have become a diurnal aspect of my conscious/unconscious existence, which otherwise has all too few diurnal aspects (‘unable to sleep, preceded by waking’), these days.”
Tom Clark
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