Dave, I found it fairly easily. The navigation is a little unintuitive
(it does begin on 4 of 8; Ms. Monk's essay begins on page 1, and the
best way to get to that is by reading through the entire poem, which is
broken up on those later pages).
At least Monk's essay and work explicitly acknowledge the communion and
community of souls, though her approach will threaten, in that
post-modern spirit, the romantic notion of the Poet as Individual
Creator. Well, that notion has never been true--only 250 years ago we
had Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, much the same spirit (for how much of Pope
is intertwined with Homer there). It was a brave move to go from Hopkins
to Donne, one of the most sensual of the Metaphysicals; she draws the
accusation of aesthetic necrophilia to her I suppose, but I do think
that at least in this case the issue of the mating serves her purpose.
Monk explicitly states that her aims are political as much as
aesthetic--"Unlike Hopkins whose poems introduced a dichotomy of social
and political injustice my Roman Rumourals were a total appropriation of
poems by men but reworked and signed by a woman. I liked the fact that
they may have disapproved of such a heresy. A form of retribution and
redressing from the future but a retribution that is intended to be
complimentary towards the work," she writes. I suppose one could argue
about the quality of the work (I like this poem a lot myself), but her
project, I think, is very supple, and an honest project.
Best,
George
David Bircumshaw wrote:
> well, hmm, I've looked on the site and can't find it.
>
> can anyone else?
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Fascicle 2
>
>
>
>> On 14/2/06 7:57 AM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well as John Donne has come back from the dead to collaborate with
>>>
> Geraldine
>
>>> I've fallen to thinking of other interesting resurrections with a
>>>
> cultural
>
>>> object:
>>>
>> Hmm. Did anyone bother to read the actual poem?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>> Alison Croggon
>>
>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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