Andrew,
I can bring to mind 3 recent instances when I considered the unlikely subject of cloth hanging on outside lines from an aesthetic angle. Though not from an academic perspective, the director Pedro Costa's decision to include amongst his finished work a former outtake on the laundry of the filmmakers Straub/Huillet led me to quarry a doubly ekphrastic poem out of that short film. Now I'm thinking about sending my series of 3 poems via Straub/Huillet to the well-regarded film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, who has published more than once on those filmmakers, asking him whether he can locate my writing within the range of film criticism. Especially since he has retired TO academia after reviewing regularly for many year for the Chicago Reader, an alternative weekly.
Barry
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:12:17 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Reading aloud
>to my wife
>a delightfully academic
>
>description of
>my eco-conscious intent
>in a simple poem,
>
>we laugh
>like a tree full
>of kookaburras.
>
>---------------------
>
>Have you had this too? The poem was a cut out from a journal entry about
>hanging out my washing when I lived in a flat. It was sprinkling that day,
>but I knew the little shower wouldn't last, so it was a good idea to grab
>the communal clothesline when it was empty. Some other flat residents passed
>me and looked quizzical. In the poem I noted they were going to an air
>conditioned cinema in an air conditioned car, whereas I was enjoying light
>rain and would no doubt trail lawn clippings into my laundry (a domestic
>trivialised version of a great Greek poem about bringing the outdoors inside
>and making love wildly in nature) ... The review made a lot out of my
>intentions, giving the poem much more weight than it really deserved. I'm
>not complaining - just laughing.
>
>--
>
>Andrew
>http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
>http://www.picaropress.com/
>http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
>http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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