Sorry for the extended delay in writing - I have been in the NT working
on a collaboration project for the ABC... The beginnings of which can be
seen at http://www.timbonham.com/slideshows/MtEverard/
I'm ashamed that I haven't enough faith in my critical skills to apply
the exegesis that others do here, other than to say - Ana, you picked a
pretty fine week to join this list. Everyone writing, everyone talking
to each other - civilly - some sharp snaps.
I'm a little in two minds about this latest snap, and will attend to it
more. Janet, I'm very much in mind of your thoughts on the last line,
and Doug, as ever, yours overall. But it may have a life yet. I have
been following the Language poetry and the Body thread on UB (I shan't
cross post) and have let myself become ever more confused.
Reading Woolf on reading - the intuitive poet - do people think - is
there any other kind? I mean, there's always a critical intelligence and
an educated awareness that we all must have, but is it 'old hat' to
strive to make language do something more - to writhe or to flow, to go
to that sub-cutaneous layer where we are surprised and moved? Alison,
I'm thinking of your essay, 'Speculations on the poetic'. I really don't
want to get into the schools argument so much. Reading Paul Muldoon of
late, it's like Heaney's description of reading Hughes's "The Pig" -
whoosh! And I come back to my work with a new eye - albeit one attuned
to slackness, and to flaws.
caleb
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of kasper salonen
Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 7:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Snap 16/5
I don't answer every one, surely. but thanks, I guess.
On 16/05/07, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It is a great poem and I admire your (Kasper) incredible capacity in
> answering each and every one in a perfect way,
>
> On 5/16/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > it is; I thought you were saying "enough with the positive comments
> > already!" haha.
> > confusion averted
> >
> > KS
> >
> > On 16/05/07, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > I agree with the positive comments, hope this is more
comprehensible, ?
> > >
> > > On 5/16/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ??
> > > >
> > > > On 16/05/07, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > Ok with the positive comments
> > > > >
> > > > > On 5/16/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > this is outstanding. lush, & outstanding.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > KS
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 16/05/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > > > My earthen bride
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose lovers sink their blackstick fingers
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose thighs gutter the sailing world
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose mouth strains the air of impurity
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose whims are silk-quartz unbound from clay
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > dendrites of gold and of moss marking their surface
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose ankles strain above the piazza loreto cobbles
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose mouth is smooth agate, and births onyx
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose fingers are rosemary and blood
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > whose vision coloured and colourless as mirth
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > gags our lies half-spoken, our helpless, virtuous lies,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > our lies meaning well, or meaning ill:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I search, I am searching for you, at dawn at dusk
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > among the thrusting mushrooms, in the wet grasses
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > along the sandy courses, the shilling-edged ravines
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > through the prickly acacia, the boxthorn and rose-apple
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > among the grey horses, the black and the bay
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > along their steaming flanks, avoiding the carnelian eye
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > seeking to touch your forehead with my partisan thumbs
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > though I am worn thin, the sun moving steadily from me
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > and sweetness becoming the vaguer emotion...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
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