Thanks Martin. I felt I was remiss as a scholar not to further pursue the connection between the subject line and Creeley after a few nose-dives into the first posts proved fruitless. But I am remiss as a scholar. Thanks for the link. I will listen to the readings. I had a wonderful time with IN COMPANY and the accompanying cd-rom with material from Robert's collaborations with visual artists over the decades -- cd-rom designed by Kristen Prevallet.
Mairead
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I found this irritating, too, Mairead - though not because it is
pejorative (not in my idiolect), but because it summons up an image of a
male slavering over the very idea of women's breasts & I couldn't see
its relevance to Creeley, either as a poet or as a man recently
deceased. Perhaps I missed the point...
There are Creeley readings online, by the way, for those (like Dom,
maybe) who would like to get a feeling for the unique sound of his poems:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow/creeley.html - for instance. I
know that my first hearing of Creeley (reading *For Love*) decades ago
radically altered my conception of what a poetry reading might be.
mj
Mairead Byrne wrote:
>Dear All,
>Am I alone in finding the subject line of this thread a little offensive, in view of Robert Creeley's recent death and the
>occasional pejorativenss of the word "tit"? My first attempt at amendation makes a barbed point, which may itself be offensive though I hope not. Feel free to change.
>Mairead
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>This is interesting, Dominic, to see someone come to Creeley for the
>first time, when many of us (especially in NA) have been reading him
>for decades. Re: your reference to Yeats, I only heard Creeley read
>once, but he was already aware of aging at that time, & his latest
>poems were about that. Listening to him (he turned a huge audience of
>about 1000 into a few people across a small table in the living room to
>whom he whispered intimately), my thought was He has achieved a
>presence like unto the older Yeats, sheer mastery speaking.
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>Doug
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>(780) 436 3320
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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>O baby, get out of Egypt *
>This history is not for you,
>Get out of there, out of my path,
>Out of my speechless mouth, the Egypt shrieking
>a redundant, plundering tongue . . .
>An ancient slang speaks through me like that.
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> Gwendolyn MacEwen
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