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> Lähettäjä: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2003/09/30 ti PM 04:27:03 GMT+03:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: Re: Sub: Biscuit Tin, 1910 (Mike)
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> Hello Christina,
You wrote:
I think one of my main interests in poetry
> may be to try to offer the reader space to interact freely with what's there
> without worrying about whether something makes sense or requires this or that
> tone.
Mike adds:
This sounds very much like what I´ve been trying to do with some of my recent postings, including the latest, Letters. They don´t make literal, everyday sense, but I´m after a tone or atmosphere that the reader hopefully responds to and can fit to whatever `narrative´ they want to make from the text.
You wrote:
I'd buy you a drink if you were here:-)
Mike adds:
I´m on my way :-)
Best wishkies, Mike
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> > >Hello Christina,
> > I like this very much. The piece has a certain tone but I can´t
> > find a word to describe it, it´s sad and wistful in part but there´s something
> > a bit inimical, almost threatening, about it (or is it just me?) The heavy
> > stress on `dead men´ after the childlike image and swinging rhythm of `sea-saw
> > boys in sailor suits´ really pulls me up. It´s a very good line, so is line
> > 3, again with the violent element contained in `rot´. A whole lost world is
> > implied in the first stanza, like the lost smell of cinnamon, but the loss is
> > presented almost like a threat. That´s what I´m trying to say. Do you read it
> > that way? If this is a working draft, I don´t think I´d change anything.
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> > Best wishes, Mike
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