Mairead,
Oh, I'm glad! I love Rukeyser too.
And by the way, I wanted to say that I liked your post on banter and language, but perhaps it's Indiana! There are places where one can get away with rough gestures of affection, I'm thinking of my dairy farmer relatives in Colorado whose standard greeting:
Dammit, sis, how are the hell are you? goddamn weather: usually accompanied by an elbow in the ribs! But yes, it is often a homogeneous population. I remember my father, the son of Swiss immigrants, who grew up in an orphanage in Chicago saying nothing but the scowl on his face.
Rebecca
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> Thank you Rebecca, you are a trojan! Muriel Rukeyser has a special
meaning to me so I treasure your comment.
M
Mairéad Byrne
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Rhode Island School of Design
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Mairead, I like this, it reminds me of those pithy poems by
Rukeyser "I'd rather be alive and be Muriel, then be dead and
be Ariel" (sorry, I've forgotten the linebreaks), though I did notice on
later readings that "you should be shot" could be heard
in a sense as aimed at the voice behind the title!
Best,
Rebecca
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