thanks helen,
i believe you have described what i would call the visualising space, or a
space where words get processed into imagery, which a lot of poems evoke.
could i ask you if, these days, with multi channel pay tv, the internet,
etc., if not the role of poetry in this area, ie capturing images, scenes
or panoramas, has been somewhat diminished.
you mention spaciality as if it were place.
the spaciality i refer to is a metaphorically internal one, inside the
head, which lifts you from the landscape and places you in some space where
time and place are immaterial, something like good sex or drugs.
cheers
komninos
At 04:00 AM 1/21/01 -0000, you wrote:
>In our capital city Perth, WA, as urban dwellers, it usually only takes one
>hour to drive either, north, south or east into country towns (coastal etc)
>and our sparse rural areas. Hence, our association with the closeness of
>bushland hills, plains, coastal dunes, flora, fauna in our national parks
>etc. On a recent trip to Gidgegannup it took me only three quarters of an
>hour to reach a very, quiet, beautiful semi-rural property. How can we not
>separate ourselves when we write what we experience of place or how we view
>ourselves within a certain environment? It appears to me, that if the
>environment in Australian poetry is experienced as *romantic landscape* then
>it is the reader's euphoric experience of the text, bringing about some
>'strong sense of place.' We should guard against the inference that the
>landscape poet appears *foolishy sentimental* (romanticism) when the work
>brings you to our inherent culture.
>To turn the argument around, and only going by my limited reading of say US,
>British, Canadian, New Zealand poetry (just some examples), then if and
>when, I read (& I have recently with Chris Hayden's truly visual urban
>lifestyle of St. Louis eg.), then I too, get a strong sense of place. I
>don't want to drool over travel brochures, I want to visualise your
>spaciality/urban envirnoment/rural landscape in your part of the world. I
>would love to travel through - let's say the 'rockies, Piccadily Circus, the
>heather in Scotland or on a London bus' through the poet's voice. Seamus
>Heaney gives me a great visual sense of Ireland, both its lifestyle, history
>and environment.
>Lastly, thanks to Frances Sbrocchi's poetry (our list member) I have
>experienced a more visual concept of Canada through her voice.
>Helen
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