No, don't change a word. The connotations have changed, which gives her
another avenue of discussion. Cheers - Andrew
On 31 March 2011 10:34, Millicent Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> It's the holy grail not to change words!!!
>
> :)
>
> I would not change any author's work. That said, I love teaching "Skunk
> Hour," A few well-placed "hints" about what lines mean, background
> information and preliminary prep should take away any surprise or giggles or
> fixation over the term "fairy" There is a great recording of Lowell reading
> it--which I use, I believe it is available at
>
> http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15279
>
> Perhaps your wife could do a little preliminary history of the poem and
> lines, read it herself and then have them listen to the poet read it? I am
> always amazed by the nuances that appear when a writer reads his own work. I
> think it would be an amazing poem for a psychotherapy class. So much to
> analyze.
>
>
> Millicent
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 5:44 pm
> Subject: Re: snap: seasons / question about 'Skunk Hour'
>
>
> Thanks, Vincent. Chris may be right there are lines better snipped.
> While I'm here - a question -
> My wife has in mind reading out Robt Lowell's Skunk Hour in a psychotherapy
> lass. My mind's not right etc.
> BUT can she get her listeners not to worry about the earlier phrase
> bout 'our fairy decorator'?
> suggest she quietly changes fairy to gay, but I know it's a tampering not
> rdinarily to be countenanced.
> Max
> On 31/03/11 8:10 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Max - a generous, loving Large piece. thank you!
>
> Stephen Vincent
>
> --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: snap: seasons
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 4:45 PM
>
> Seasons - a toast
>
> Autumn so soon!
> Summer shot through -
>
> just one beach,
> coolish; one
>
> mountain drive.
> Scarcely a single
>
> old-style heat-wave
> when you just lie low.
>
> And Winter soon, more
> funerals of folk my age -
>
> perhaps my own.
> Spring? nothing
>
> I could say that's fresh,
> let alone sing.
>
> Should I be here
> to greet it silently
>
> that would be enough.
> You in your other
>
> hemisphere, you
> topsy turvy
>
> temperate-zone
> northern antipodeans,
>
> in places where Easter
> is a spring festival,
>
> here's health and long
> life to all of us
>
> south and north,
> old and young,
>
> pious or pagans,
> observing the seasons.
>
> Birds are at the apple trees
> competing with us humans.
>
> Max Richards
> Melbourne
> late March 2011
>
>
> --
>
--
Andrew
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