I've not been a Heaney fan so far, either, nor, I must confess, have I read
all his books, but the article did lead me to appreciate that poem "Weighing
in".
"Passive/Suffering makes the world go round" is good. I never realised there
was a thing called a weighbridge. I lived in a place called Weybridge once -
now I know. And what Jesus was writing in the dust, though puzzling, was not
beyond all conjecture: it was a poem, but the disciples could neither read
nor write and the Pharisees averted their eyes.
mj
Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
In high silk hose and peekaboo clothes
And French perfume that rocks the room
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.
Livingston/Evans 1947
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:55 PM
Subject: review of Heaney interview book
> Interesting (even for one who isn't the biggest Heaney fan):
>
> http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=061cd0bf-414f-4e58-b842-c7b37e807c66
>
> THE NEW REPUBLIC
> In the Word-Hoardby Adam Kirsch
> Post Date Wednesday, March 04, 2009
>
> Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
> By Dennis O'Driscoll
>
> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 522 pp., $32)
>
> 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
>
> It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>
> Thelonious Monk
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