Ahhh indeed! many thanks :)
KS
On 03/04/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ahhh Kasper - the word songline refers to a White understanding of a
> complex Indigenous (Australian Aboriginal) system of communications,
> kinship rules and beliefs - a 'system' insofar as that is the only word
> we have in English to try and grasp another culture's world. It was used
> by Bruce Chatwin in the novel "The Songlines", a book that was popular
> for a time among people here and overseas who had obviously never been
> near Indigenous culture in this country, and were clinging to a
> sickening amalgam of hand-picked slices of Rousseau and ideas of a Gaia.
>
> caleb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of kasper salonen
> Sent: Monday, 2 April 2007 6:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem - Run
>
> On 02/04/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > oy kasper settle down - down!!!!! crack of the whip - just settle down
>
> what?
> also, is 'songline' some sort of taboo to some of y'all?, because I
> quite like it. it might be rather too indulgent &/or pretentious
> (especially "*this is my* songline"), were this a weaker poem on the
> whole. it wouldn't damage the poem to remove it though. so. uh. YEEHAA
>
> KS
>
>
>
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