Hi Stephen,
Welcome back from your wordlessness.
> I opened on your snap
> and, wow, how close this is to the early Snyder. Not to discount your
> poem
> at all, but the wilderness resonances are so close. I would not know
> if you
> have read Snyder - who particularly in the sixties and early seventies
> - was
> very popular in USA & England. In London, Fulcrum Press, did a
> Collected
> Poems: A Range of Poetry) in 1967 when Snyder was only 37 years old!
Yes, I do know Snyder. Not intimately, but I do have copies of Turtle
Island and The Back Country around here somewhere. So, in saying that,
you can see that ostensibly he's not a big influence.
> Your poem, as I read it, clearly allows more 'disturbance' into the
> content,
> or cannot fully escape it, where Snyder's poem is intent on a clarity
> that
> transcends being immobilized by 'disturbance'.
I hadn't thought about it in the sense of 'disturbance' but maybe that
is a way of looking at it, that the parts move against or along each
other. i would there is a clarity but not in any transcendent sense,
not in these poems.
> Anyway I like what you are working through (the materials), allowing
> that
> challenge.
The challenge keeps me working. This is one I've taken up lately so I
don't get waylaid by other 'stuff'. Had a drink with friends tonight,
we all agreed to try and get by the 'stuff' we are all sharing in. Felt
a bit better but I'll also tool away with the words, myself.
Thanks for this.
Best,
Jill
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