So good to hear back from you, Jill. I know it's warming there now, and the
very thought of parrots outside your office window is something I find
especially charming :)
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 12:30 AM Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Sheila,
> I'm glad there was something that was useful in my response. Perhaps
> the coincidental is a good way to see things at times.
> And - thanks for your good wishes. I have my ups and downs in this
> place. Like most everyone in the rest of the world, I'd guess. But
> right now it's a very fine and warm spring afternoon. And my office is
> quiet apart from the chatter of parrots just outside.
> Best,Jill
> ___________________________________________Jill Jones
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> Minister's Literary Awards
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:27:30 -0700
> Subject:Re: early snap
>
> Dear Jill,
>
> I am moved by your generous reading of this new piece, Jill. Thank
> you for
> helping me see the poem better than I could while it was becoming
> itself on
> the page.
>
> I just re-read "Remembrance," and your point about caesura is well
> heard as
> I look at the two pieces. Different things happening, as you say.
> Your
> alerting us to the chiming with your reading is very helpful.
>
> "Slow-turned strong feeling, despite your short lined stanzas"
> confirms for
> me a hope for this piece.
>
> It means a great deal to hear from you here and to listen to what you
> say.
>
> Hope you are thriving in that beautiful land where you live! Sheila
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:58 PM Jill Jones wrote:
>
> > Dear Sheila,
> >
> > I feel very much, in this, the operation of the mind as it
> > investigates (and laments).
> >
> > And can I just add – a bit at length – how I’m very struck by
> > its structure, the way it breaks down the page. I know this is a
> very
> > odd thing to note but I happened to be re-reading Emily Bronte’s
> > poem ‘Remembrance’ - literally - when this came into my email.
> In
> > that poem, as you may know, there is caesura in most lines that
> your
> > line breaks remind me of. And, yes, I know, of course, a line break
> is
> > not a caesura but it somehow chimes in this moment of my reading.
> > Also, in the Bronte, there are many line endings of double rhyme
> > (so-called feminine rhyme). Again, yours does not rhyme, though
> there
> > are hints of slant rhyme, but a number of the end words have
> > unstressed last syllables. So, that seemed to me to offer a similar
> > experience of shaped and slow-turned strong feeling, despite your
> > short lined stanzas.
> >
> > Apologies if I seem a bit too focused on something you may never
> > have
> > intended. It is a coincidence, or more than, that resonates with me
> in
> > this moment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jill
> > ___________________________________________Jill Jones
> > Latest book, Viva the Real, from UQP
> > https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1473/Viva%20the%20Real
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> > To:
> > Cc:
> > Sent:Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:32:54 -0700
> > Subject:early snap
> >
> > *It Was Always New*
> >
> > And then nothing
> >
> > could be lifted
> >
> > no matter the muscle
> >
> > or the will
> >
> > The ground was all
> >
> > and recollection maybe
> >
> > feathered any softness
> >
> > left to be imagined
> >
> > Again as any number
> >
> > of defeats were multiplied
> >
> > times themselves now
> >
> > fastened down and seen
> >
> > And felt as though
> >
> > no sky were ever here
> >
> > for the duration
> >
> > I had lived for
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
> >
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