Yes, I meant to write to the list
I should know that quote. It's a book I know. A book I own
I think there's a lot here. I won't deny that I am very uneasy about prayer
getting in with the poetry, fearing it won't suit the works; but that's only
my thought for the day...
it's the boot-strapping bit of poetry I am liking at this *minute, the way
it makes its meaning as it discovers it; and as far as I am concerned that
can include what isnt there, the unbody, as you and Octavio say, though Ive
probably hijacked that
Peter's poise, there's a bit of a road about 7 miles from here where you can
see the north and south sea; and I stood there for some time today... you
can see it for a longer stretch of road in the (rare) bus because you are
higher, but it is visible for less time because the bus is moving
i think of it like those people who go up in Russian rockets to experience
30 seconds of weightlessness - look they need machines to help them fly -
whereas.... he-he
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 08 March 2004 22:40
Subject: Re: God & Religion
>(Lawrence, I assume you want this sent to the list?) - In Conjunctions and
>Disjunctions, Octavio Paz certainly argues that all religious texts are
>poetic - and must be because they draw together the sacred and the profane,
>the signs of the body and the non-body -
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>Best
>
>A
>
> On 9/3/04 9:13 AM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>> or the other way round?
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>>
>> L
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 08 March 2004 22:21
>> Subject: Re: God & Religion
>>
>>
>>> It also gives me the excuse to say what I didn't have the courage to say
>>> before, since I will be jumped on for conflating too many categories,
that
>>> at bottom I think all really serious poetry is a kind of prayer.
>>
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>Alison Croggon
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