Ah, ya got me, dead to riots, gloaty--hive me to a spelling bee or cawl the
freud squad!--Candunce
on 5/3/01 4:29 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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
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