Ric,
>>>[log in to unmask] (Richard Caddel) wrote:
- wassa problem here mate? I see no honour in my post, no crassness in
yours, which mostly I thot I agreed with.
You're absolutely right, of course. In the C L of D, I am totally appalled at
my tonal mismanagement of that post. I meant by no means a pop at you, and
contrition torments my heart that it should have smacked so. I sounded almost
exactly like a petulant old queen - a condition to which I heartily aspire:
Just Not Quite Yet.
That post was confected on the hoof and I was, furthermore, a bit panicky and
sorrowful. I'm apt to get a mite tired AndyMotional on this sabre-toothed
subject.
To ramble on: it is quite vertiginous to come saucy into a community of people
on whose work I was weaned - in conscious and careful relation to which
oeuvres my own practice has developed - and find, perhaps not unexpectedly
upon reflection, that many of them consider out-loud reading to be not (as I
do) a fertile and challenging extension of an act of poetry, but instead
believe it to be distinct from, and possibly inimical to, the stuff of the
poem.
Brought then into this mix is an assertion by some that 'invisibility' is kind
of prelapsarian, and that to wish to be attentive to those human pulses in the
world that pertain to poetry but are not (yet) expressed as poetry is somehow
vulgar.
Just can't get this ragged bonce around it.
But I know full well that the public appetite for the extension of this
discussion has dwindled to the size of a hemilentil, and I respectfully
defer.
grazie all,
Chris xx
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