Hi Sheila
I have been a little preoccupied much of today with a form from a funding
council today - i thought i was winning and then around midday my HoD said
that he had read my first draft and hoped I didn't mind a few suggestions;
and I only managed to read your poem and mutter internally _well that's
even more brilliant than she usually is_
It's not that I have defeated the form; but we have agreed to go back to
our tents for the night; and so I can relax till the morning
So before i go into a coma in preparation for the train i'll just say that
this is a rather special poem
one of those that makes the rest of us think _so *that's what we're trying
to do_
i did sort of think of _shutting off_ - that implicitly you are saying
_shut up without shutting off_ without saying _shutting off_; i think i
did
and that's better than the often quoted _teach us to sit still_
but stephen went ahead of me; and that's ok
so i'll shut up
L
On Fri, July 29, 2011 18:06, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> Doug, Stephen, and Hal, many thanks! Sheila
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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Vincent
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> As different from 'shutting off'!
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>> Stephen
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>> --- On Thu, 7/28/11, Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: All my Pauses Have Been Pregnant for Nine Hundred Years
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 4:42 PM
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>> "We learn best while shutting up." & all - Marvelous!
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>> - Peter
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>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Sheila Murphy
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>>> Sign posted in the window reads "Gone window
>>> shopping."
>>>
>>> Meditation usually amounts to afterthought.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now and at the time of our depth,
>>> perception, triumph starts absorbing local color.
>>>
>>> All new lanterns have ethnicity,
>>> and back bends replenish mirror images galore.
>>>
>>> Freshmen remaining
>>> in short supply eventually season into people like ourselves.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason for continuing
>>> once bookmarks have been shuffled via legacy implanted?
>>>
>>> Saints for decades have said yes
>>> when they intended to say no.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, present tense is overrated,
>>> under heated, under service warranty, with checks incoming and alarm
>>> outgoing, underneath presumptive surplus of untidy amenities.
>>>
>>> We learn best while shutting up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sheila E. Murphy
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>>>
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solo poems
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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