Thank you, Angel. Much appreciated.
Are you a poet?
Judy
2009/6/2 Angel <[log in to unmask]>
> Pretty
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> *Poetic Diary of a Clairvoyant Neanderthal in the Ardeche*
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>> "Didn't see that coming!" "Who knew?"
>> Bourgeois affectations, these parrots of parlance
>> forgetting the node of Knowing
>> sited above the back of the tongue, locked midbrain.
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>> We rooted useful otoliths,
>> cosmic clocks under pterodactyl eggs, Eiffel's
>> draped folly. "If you invent it,
>> you must continue to use it," one of you said.
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>> Indeed, through the scrumming rocksoil,
>> the river delta drowns, our words like mouth-poison,
>> we stayed here, and, staying, found
>> we'd eat one another, until we learned to say no.
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>> You've deified mind and body
>> the skin of cabernet grapes, silky light cocoons.
>> Some of you reached and will reach more
>> boredom with maps, mating, stars, studies, artful talk.
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>> You have always trusted your eyes.
>> When they fail, you see the people you've never seen.
>> You see prehistoric prophets
>> gutting your cool fish, roasting your rosemaried lambs
>> at each religion's guillotine.
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>> You think we cannot say your words
>> though we've said them in night-rhyming jasmine blossoms,
>> your heart-windows lifted in sleep,
>> and we told the morningbirds to talk you awake.
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>> Judy
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>> 2009/6/2 Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Judy, I cannot dissert on anything, as in person I dribble & forget -
>>> what?
>>> words, words. I do cook a decent curry & other things though. I usually
>>> drink Côtes du Rhône as a good Saint Emilion is beyond my humble
>>> pensioner's
>>> purse. And I live nowhere near there but in the Ardèche near Vallon Pont
>>> d'Arc, where they found the Grotte Chauvet in 1994, with the world's
>>> oldest
>>> cave drawings, if I am not mistaken. B/c me for address.
>>> votre humble serviteur
>>> mj
>>>
>>> Du siehst mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit.
>>> Gurnemanz
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Judy Prince
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:05 PM
>>> Subject: Re: "Previously unpublished"
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin, please prepare your dissertations on Brathwaite et al as you're
>>> preparing dinner for me and a friend who may be taking you up on your
>>> invitation to visit...around 20 July. You do live close to St. Emilion,
>>> don't you?
>>> Yippeee!!!
>>>
>>> Judy
>>>
>>> 2009/6/2 Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> Perhaps I should have written "not so well known internationally any
>>>>
>>> more"
>>>
>>>> (though I stand open to correction here, being not so conversant with
>>>> all
>>>> the trends of the moment) and "in the Anglo-American poetry world Derek
>>>> Walcott..." When I first started exploring modern poetry Brathwaite was
>>>>
>>> an
>>>
>>>> important figure - then the wind blew in the other direction and Walcott
>>>> became more famous. Though confusingly the Chadwyck-Healey 20th Century
>>>> English poetry CD-Rom only includes Brathwaite. So it goes, probably
>>>> something to do with licensing fees....I personally think poetry is more
>>>> like Hegel's burrowing mole of revolution and that - like great music -
>>>>
>>> it
>>>
>>>> takes time to reach those who become ready for it and unconsciously look
>>>> for
>>>> it. The DOA theory is erroneous because that vast monster, language,
>>>>
>>> takes
>>>
>>>> its time to ingest and regurgitate. But as Hal says, a poem only needs
>>>>
>>> one
>>>
>>>> reader. In each case that is "me".
>>>> mj
>>>> Du siehst mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit. - Gurnemanz
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Martin Walker
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:13 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: "Previously unpublished"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bra(i)thwaite, Stephen? Methinks you got your West Indians mixed up ;-).
>>>> Edward Kamau B. is as you say not so well known, but in the poetry world
>>>> Derek Walcott has been much read and fêted. And has poetry ever - at
>>>>
>>> least
>>>
>>>> since bardic times - been much more than a diversion of the clerisy &
>>>> purveyors of high-class entertainment to the ruling caste, he asked
>>>> wickedly?
>>>> mj
>>>> Du siehst mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit. - Gurnemanz
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Stephen Vincent
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:06 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: "Previously unpublished"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I been thinking - and maybe others have, as well - that a poem does not
>>>> exist in any of the public spheres (online, print, etc.) until it
>>>>
>>> 'breeds'
>>>
>>>> a
>>>> review and/or critical response in the eye/ear in a similar or entirely
>>>> separate public channel (online,print, etc.) And something continues to
>>>> grow
>>>> from there.
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking that most poetry, no matter how well or diligently written
>>>> has become absolutely frivolous. Frivolous because it has no visible, or
>>>> useful function in the culture(s). It's just dead on arrival! The
>>>> mechanisms
>>>> for making it so appear entirely devoid of vitality.
>>>> At best Hermes is talking to Hermes.
>>>>
>>>> Until such public means (call and response) are constructed (again), no
>>>> matter our skills and muse fidelities, in terms of any longer being a
>>>> big
>>>> public animal, we be sweeping salt. (i.e., there is much work to be
>>>> done,
>>>> and why the weekly poetry snap here can be and is valuable).
>>>>
>>>> Whatever his graces, flaws, etc. I suspect Padel was able for a bit to
>>>> play her ruse on Braithwaite and make it persuasive was because not many
>>>>
>>> in
>>>
>>>> this world had read his poetry. Where issues of sexual harassment are -
>>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>>> rightly so - required literacy and training in multiple (academic,
>>>> corporate, etc.) environments. And consequently publicly persuasive and,
>>>> for
>>>> a time, ruled this discussion
>>>>
>>>> On this this joyous note!
>>>>
>>>> Stephen V
>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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