We all come to these things our own ways, Caleb, & onwards is the only
possibility, no matter what.
What you've been doing looks very interesting; a collaboration across
many fine lines....
Doug
On 17-May-07, at 4:50 PM, Caleb Cluff wrote:
> 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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