Thank you so much
L
On Tue, December 7, 2010 22:41, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Very fine. Though I looked up the dictionary definition of the title
> upon first reading it, I really didn't need to do so since you define
> susurration both semantically and musically within the eight lines of the
> poem. I keep returning to the line unit "attempting tempting secrecy"
> for the witty turn it enacts, while your last line provides a strong yet
> paradoxical conclusion.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:14:10 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> A low soft sound as of
>> whispering or muttering; gossip; a whisper; a rustling; clatter of soft
>> woodenness banging off against itself, attempting tempting secrecy as it
>> repeats itself wrong through the winter
>>
>>
>> --
>> Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>> *
>> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
>>
>> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himse
>> lf-amusing
>>
>>
>> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of
>> us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't
>> propose to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis - That
>> Hideous Strength
>> ---
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>
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Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
*
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-amusing
"This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
---
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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