Candice
you get one hundred out of ten for admitting my little triumph. Can I dream
of having a cybernetic plaque erecting to this rarity of for once getting
the better of a woman?
But I'll better not say more, else revenge might quickly be served.
On a dish, cold.
best
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: In my dreams
> 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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