Ok, Candice
but I've got to pick you up on this: 'Manly' Hopkins??? Spelling as well as
double-entendres. Now I've got you there haven't I?, for once.
Forgive me my moment of gloatsome triumph.
best
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: In my dreams
> Yes, a marvel, Gillian--thanks from me, too! It keeps running through my
> head in riverine twists, subversive in the event--like JK's UN talk and
> Alison's boundary-critiquing response to it, which her dream-punctuated
poem
> of unspeakability would seem to illustrate. Sometimes I think Poetryetc
> operates like a collective unconsciousness, a deep well to which we go and
> dump or draw as the case may be, from one archetyped post to another and
yet
> another lurking round the corner off-site/line....
>
> Soon after Allen Ginsberg died, I dreamed he summoned me to "the other
side"
> (as that space was called in my dream) to take down as dictation--and take
> back to "this side"--a collaborative poem he was composing with Gerard
Manly
> Hopkins, up and over there. What I mainly remembered on awaking was the
> hours and hours of transcription--the dozens of yellow legal pads I went
> through in recording every word they said (and how sore my right arm and
> shoulder were as a result)--but also the way it set my teeth on edge in
the
> dream whenever Allen called Manly "Ger," and how thrilled I was when he
> dubbed me "the shebop" (which Manly immediately corrected to "sheBOP").
>
> As for what I brought back to this side after all that--the great work of
a
> collaboration to die for--it had come undone in the sidewinding course of
> its bordercross-stitching and been distilled to a single, essential
> Ginsberg/Hopkins line: "Fuck the lark."
>
> Candice
>
>
>
>
> on 5/3/01 9:57 AM, Frank Parker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > "We come sit-down"
> > A poem which may be sung, Gillian!
> > Thanks
> > :fp
> >
> > ***************
> > Frank Parker
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> > http://now.at/frankshome
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