Yes, I know her words were on the page (very DosPasso-like)
but where no in the air.
From what I understand, she's a better reader than that all that.
But on that day--in front of the Capital, globally, she left it in
Chicago.
Gerald
> Thanks Gerald, a thoughtful take on that. I simply noted that Lowery got
> through, & Alexander bored me. Despite the fact that I usually dont think
> much of rhyming verse, but he wasnt rhyming verse, he was singing,
> praising, getting it on. She was hardly even there, especially in her
> language....
>
> Doug
> On 20-Jan-09, at 12:30 PM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Spiritual Life: Poetry and prayer: Parallels of invocationMuch the way
>> that, say, Lorenzo Thomas' work is, I must say Rev. Dr. Joseph E.
>> Lowery's Benediction was more poetry than Alexander delivered, proving
>> in full that POETRY SPEAKS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE akin to prayer. The
>> benediction, like authentic poetry, was an activity. It activated.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
>
> Dwight D, Eisenhower
> [at a cabinet meeting]
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