> Robin writes:
>
> > And elsewhere and in another context, david b. invoked the name of
> > W.S.Graham. Again a lyric to philosophic shift -- _Nightfishing_ to
> > _Malcolm Mooney's Land_ and _The Instruments in Their Places_?
>
> It's not quite as neat as that, I think. _The Nightfishing_ is a
> philosophical poem in the sense that it shows an obsession with
Heraclitean
> flux:
>
> I bent to the lamp. I cupped
> My hand to the glass chimney.
> Yet it was a stranger's breath
> From out of my mouth that
> Shed the light.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
Matthew is correct, and I was (more than perhaps) being a little glib
here -- but I do think there is more of a foregrounding of philosophical
issues (and different ones -- primarily language?) in MML and IITP.
But I don't know the earlier Graham as well as I should. Not so much that I
shouldn't talk, as that I was hoping that, as happened with Matthew, someone
would say something more pertinent than I could.
But I +would+ be interested in Candice's take on the later Graham, given the
language dimension. Grammersow and all.
Robin
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