Are the books not David and the dolls Vicky? Or is that too simplistic?
joanna
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Beginnings of a poem
>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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