Thanks Douglas. Y'know I can disagree with David Bircumshaw's thinking in
some areas, let alone anyone else's!
The emotional pressures that our newly war-focused civilization have exerted
on everyone are all too clear, it scares me, and that is frank. But I hope
that we can retain a concentration on poetry in this context, a la Jon
Corelis's post, even though the question might occur of Adorno's statement
after Auschwitz. I'm certainly not claiming certitude on these matters.
As I write BBC News 24 is blaring out the war stories, while I am also
thinking about a possible new poem and a semi-quote in my recent piece 'The
Cloud'. What I'm bugged about there is who sang a song with the line 'I've
got a spell on you'. I know it was an American black woman soul or blues
singer but can't remember who - it annoys me because I adopted the phrase,
and even sang it (as 'she'd put a hex on me') in the piece, I greatly
recommend singing a phrase of a poem in performance btw, even someone with
my dulcet tones can do it, recently I've been improvising blues lyrics to a
guitarist, nothing written down but it's brilliant practise. But I've been
asking people about the song left-right-and-centre, everyone knows what I
mean but no-one can recall exactly what it is.
Help would be appreciated!
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: David B.
With David thanking you Randolph (& I getting all this in a bunch but
trying to respond to each one as I read it), I can just add my thank you
too. I'm glad to have him here, & would be glad to have Michael Snider
still too, even if I do disagree with his thinking in some areas.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I fear this war
will be long and painful
and who
pursue
it
Lorine Niedecker
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