Will snip this out of a longer, temporarily shelved contribution, to
catch at K's phrase. ( I understand reading is what is taught in the
poetics program at SUNY Buff & a good idea too: probably elsewhere
also.) Here's the snip:
Innovative Reading as Impulsion to Writing Past Banality --
from Barbara Guest citing Susan Howe citing Emily Dickinson, who
might finally incite us:
"Did you ever read one of her Poems backward [thought to be
referring to EB Browning] because the plunge from the front overwhelmed
you? I sometimes (often have, many times) have -- A something
overtakes the Mind."
A reader is all I ask, if that kind of attention is called forth (
"Neck-hairs attend ye").
Keith Tuma's on Pickard just in while typing thus far. I've read out
loud Prynne, Bunting, several others to folk currently labelled
developmentally delayed & been greeted with laughter, tears, & one woman
said "the holy horrors" (as a compliment of course). (Recently read
that Guy Davenport, aged 7, was thought to be "retarded". God bless us
clever labellers!)
More anon,
Pete.
ps a propos of last mutterings above: from "The Zeros: Day Book"
#25
Met with the mutants group today:
the guy with the extra X & Y
48XXYY
& the woman whose
19th chromosome was skewed
by a faulty blueprint
at conception
"You mean
I'm just naturally fucked-up?"
We don't discuss by whose decree
I make a living
off the flukes of their dystress.
By the time we're through
there's a puddle of knowledge
on the floor between us.
We leave it there.
Don't know who the I in the poem could possibly be.
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