Hey, I cross-referenced my Becketts! Yes, Sam would be good >g< (He's
actually on the T-shirt I'm wearing, a stranger's visage to the
Chinese pedestrians today.)
Androo
On 06/05/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 10:40 PM
> Subject: Re: "The Return"
>
>
> Fred - I was/am really captured by this from its first frame: I see it
> cinematically. I find the parenthesis unnecessary at times - only
> really necessary with '(and the Palace itself?)' Just my personal
> aversion, perhaps.
>
> In my reading, I gave Will, Tom and Laura real figurings: Shakespeare,
> Beckett, Reading. The Reader brings his own sack of potatoes to the
> table.
>
>
> Thanks for that poem.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> Andrew, you may be right about the parentheses. A friend once said that my
> work seemed to be about the word "or." ("Hamlet in every line!" he added.)
> I fight my tendency to overuse that word, but I may rely too much on
> parentheses. Their rationale here, however, had to do with the big surreal
> change in the middle of the poem. If the recurrent afterthought and
> sub-thought of the parentheses keeps readers sufficiently off balance (I
> thought), they might accept more readily the messenger's becoming "she." It
> would have a dreamlike obviousness.
>
> My earliest poetry, thirty years ago, was full of barely-allegorized
> abstractions. Then I spent eight years in LA. Though I disliked the place,
> everything I wrote became movies.
>
> In honor of your "sack of potatoes" - a dimension I didn't see, but which
> tickles me - I may rename Tom "Sam."
>
--
Andrew
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