Douglas:
This one takes the breath right from me. Thank you for this. I'm largely
unaware of her work. Could you tell me some titles? (you could bchnl. if you
want) This Is someone whose work I must be up on.
Cheers,
Gerald
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: An untypical SAlly Purcell poem
> This is not a typical Sally Purcell poem. She wrote brilliant snowflakes
> of poems of exceptional words building up to a stained glass window
> which didnt tell a story directly, but I chose this poem of hers
> from her third book for 'Lynx' because it spoke directly of herself.
> I wanted to put up a selection of her poetry on my Website after her
> death but the project vanished in the post to Oxford.
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> I had forgotten I had the poem or I would have posted it earlier.
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> From Propertius
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> Let others write about you, or else you can stay unknown;
> let a man praise you if he likes to sow the sand.
> For believe me, all your gifts go with you,
> carried out in one coffin one dark day,
> and the passer-by will scorn your bones --
> he will not say, 'This ash was once a learned girl.'
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> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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