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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Poet vs Quotidian self (Re: Audience / poems on walls )
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> From: "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:57 PM
> Subject: Poet vs Quotidian self (Re: Audience / poems on walls )
>
>
>> Alison writes:
>>
>>> "Firstly, the poet is a fiction. The poet has nothing to do with the
>>> quotidian self who bears children, buys the milk, scrubs the cupboards,
>>> yells at her partner and forgets to do the tax return.
>>
>> No, no. It's the poet self that yells at the partner and forgets
>> the tax return.
>>
>> The quotidian self is the one that picks up the partner's shoes
>> (and puts them in the shoe rack where he will never find them)
>> and gets on with the tax return.
>>
>> Just joking. I do know what you mean, really.
>>
>> Although I'm not sure I agree that the poet is a fiction.
>>
>> What if I put on clothes that, to my mind, are a poem (now there's a
>> thought!), and go to a poetry workshop and talk about poetry
>> and write poetry? One could argue that the other participants
>> are getting a fair dose of my poet self, and therefore it is real,
>> at least to them.
>>
>> Janet
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Janet Jackson
>>
> U.A.Fanthorpe's poem 'Atlas ' comes to mind. She read it on Desert Island
> Discs last week. It is about 'maintenance' love as opposed to 'romantic'
> love. Exactly what Alison is talking about as being non-poetic. Perhaps
> someone can post a link as it will be copyright.
>
It is in this chatgroup if you scroll down:
http://www.ukauthors.com/article9383.html
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