Thanks, Doug
It was strange "finding it" among the discussion of the word - which
itself emerged - finding there was a poem there!
L
On Wed, December 8, 2010 21:38, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I'm just gong to agree with Barry here, Lawrence. I liked that line
> too, & then that turn to the last line. The sense of repeating without
> actually doing so works too....
>
> Doug
> On 7-Dec-10, at 3:41 PM, 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-hims
>>> elf-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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