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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.
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