>I remember Bunting talking about the "music of the body" when I was a
>music student in Newcastle - the rhythms the body makes when walking,
>riding, lying still, the vibrations & tones therein. That you might filter
>it into music, or poetry, indeed you should try to
I've been following these threads with fascination, but every cats-cradle gets made and unmade before my slow hand can respond.
Ric's comment just reminded me of something Randolph was talking about six months or so ago, when I first fell into this den of ne'er-do-wells: what habits people adopt to help initiate composition. Do I remember right that Wordsworth was a considerable walker, very fast and vigorous, and that it was while in full stride that he did most of his work. But maybe that was before he got doddery. And Beckett was a walker, to a different end. I remember, i think, Mayakovsky talking about 'how poems are made', or somesuch, saying how he'd been working long on something on his daily tram ride, but couldn't complete it, till he took a train instead, and the different rhythms brought him the closure he wanted. (Example of someone with designs on ending up with a 'hot little poem' in their fist?)
I'm aware I'm partly missing the point here, but I'm interested in the intersection between the activity which accentuates the rhythms of the body (walking, riding, . . .) and the places it can land you. Tai-chi versus a train-ride, walking versus being bound in a rocking-chair.
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