Dear Rupert,
Thank you for your visionary and encouraging post the immediate effect
of which was to get me thinking about fertile approaches to my own
work, and also poets who seem to make their own brave sweet rules.
Mairead
>
> However, I do think there are possibilities in poetry and art via
> collaborative work which can challenge the ultimate false divide of sexism.
> And much else. In the end (I really mean this moment) it's about Becky (her
> brilliant teachers don't quite take in how her hands are her heart and
> mind). It's about Mary too - and all men and women - and it's about breaking
> the artist's pencil
>
> "I can't draw" is the plea and the excuse not to 'do' - because of the
> weight imposed. For me, I can't teach drawing but want to lift the weight.
> Probably sounds crass but when one works in the breakage yard I begin to
> understand what's really broken.
>
> Best, Rupert
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