Thanks Rupert! Very blush-making praise. Thanks for referring me to Ewan
Hunter's "The Last Spin - which I'll try to read soon. And my welcome to you
and Mairead as the new list-owners and a fond farewell to chris and Trevor!
Thanks also to all the kind backchannels and all the fine poems I get to
read on this list.
Best,
Jeff
>From: "mallin1" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "mallin1" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Jeff Harrison"
><[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: With One Of The World's Inks
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:09:17 +0100
>
>Dear Jeff
>
>Wow, such a poem. As said previously b/c I much appreciate your posted
>poems
>to the List, so want to say this to the List too. Gathering together in the
>last verse/part, these words are really gripping/moving:
>
>"saw the avalanche, here a telegenic rockslide
> such as you have, or might see, outside this poem,
> had many a rock with many a shiny spot mirroring
>Virginia..."
>
>It ends where it began - "Virginia being Virginia elsewhere is..."
>
>I'm immediately reminded of Ewan Hunter's simple but effective short story
>'The Last Spin.' The end is known at the beginning but it is the substance
>of the interaction
>between opening and closure which haunts and holds. And deeper, you
>make such movement in stasis - it's electric.
>
>Best, Rupert
>
>
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