I still own the copy of 77 Dream Songs I bought as an undergraduate & I had
always assumed they were the first 77, partly because higher numbered ones
continued to appear, giving at least the illusion of chronology.
jd.
On 5/4/07, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> "He did his almost perfect best with what he had" - Dream Song 205.
>
> The new complete edition of the Dream Songs has arrived. I am sorry to
> say that it is printed on rather thin paper, but then it was a quite
> inexpensive purchase.
>
> I'm struck - from the angle of my own interests - by the adherence to
> form, and the way the "long poem" accumulates as dreamwork, work of
> mourning, running commentary on inner and outer life. By the tangle of
> registers, the play of wildness and restraint (no problem, here,
> locating "the bloody horse"). The phrase-making, which takes away the
> breath.
>
> The original 77 that were published together - were they simply the
> first 77 in the sequence, or selected from among a larger set?
>
> Dominic
>
> --
> Shall we be pure or impure? Today
> we shall be very pure. It must always
> be possible to contain
> impurities in a pure way.
> --Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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