I found this exchange interesting, as was the poem, however yet
incomplete, but I would tend to agree with what you say here, Rebecca,
if only that I too still found the books coming in all out of
nowhere....
Doug
On 2-Apr-06, at 3:45 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>> And she's been egging me on to write a poem called
>> roughly Talking +to+
>> Dolls for some weeks. I think Vicky's interest in
>> this is very much on the
>> lines of dolls representing women's interiority:
>> she'd love to be able to
>> write on the subject herself but struggles for the
>> words, although she has
>> the concepts.
>>
>> I'm certainly wary about books being framework-like
>> in the poem, but the
>> shelves irresistably suggest them.
>
> I'm glad you found my comments of some help, and, yes,
> I was more or less saying that dolls can represent
> women's interiority, as they do in Ravikovich's work,
> among others. Perhaps, Vicky should try writing on the
> subject herself, since we all struggle with words, one
> way or another.
>
> In looking at it again, I like the 'docks' in this
> line
>> for the raised docks of shelves.
> and it made me think, given your description of the
> facts, that one of the issues with the framework is
> that it is in 'your' pov, whereas the dolls are in
> hers, so that when it ends with 'books' 'for the
> raised docks of shelves' it moves from her dolls to
> your books, it would seem from what you say that for
> her, it's more
>
>> breathing undertow as you dressed
>> them anew
>>
>> for the raised docks
>
> and that the poem might be more compelling for being
> given over to her purposes.
>
> Best,
>
> Rebecca
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