and bruce chatwin sucks - big time
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From: Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Poem - Run
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:30:53 +1000
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
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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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