Thanks, Jon, Rebecca, Geoffrey, for your interest in the poem, and
thanks Geoffrey for yours, which I read with great interest. And
especially thanks to Rebecca for "getting it". It's actually
something I've been fiddling with for years, and this is probably
closer to "finished" or "abandoned" (whichever you prefer) than most
of the stuff I occasionally post here. One of its preoccupations -
apart from the obvious one of state/male violence and its connection
to the absent god (that essay by Freud about the absent god, the
absent father, the abiding anxiety about paternity and thus the
necessary control of a woman's sexuality) - or its other face, if you
like, is simply that mystery of the obliterations of mortality, which
is why it ends up with Sappho. But I feel like I'm explaining it,
which always feels unsatisfactory -
Best
A
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