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That was very hasty about 'Ode to WAlt Whitman'. I dont know if 'concrete tinderbox' comes from there or from somewhere like 'KIng of Harlem' or is just me. Back to the cricket. Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote: > The full introduction is > 'This one's for friendship' > > If you listen to the song you will understand how I was > drawn to quote it in the poem. The other American reference > is to Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman. > > > > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote: > > > 'No Surrender' > > > > 'For friendship' is from his one-line introduction > > and 'these 'these drums and these guitars' from his lyrics. > > > > I think that 'No Surrender' and 'Independence Day' are probably > > his greatest songs. > > > > > > > > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote: > > > > > The line > > > 'For friendship -- I listen to these drums and these guitars' > > > > > > contains the essence of a Springsteen line. Sorry I cant remember > > > the song or the original quote. I'll dig out my CD set and try > > > and find it while watching the cricket for an hour before I > > > catch the bus to my voluntary job. > > > > > > > > > > > > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > > > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Candice Ward wrote: > > > > > > > What I want to know is the Springsteen quote! I've been poring over the poem > > > > and can't spot it. Sure, "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive," but it > > > > ain't no less than one to forget rock lyrics in your middle age! > > > > > > > > Candice > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > on 8/24/01 5:01 AM, Douglas Clark at [log in to unmask] wrote: > > > > > > > > > Silly me! I forgot to give the quote which I doctored: > > > > > 'You weep like a woman for what you could not hold as a man' > > > > > > > > > > Everybody will have forgotten my poem by now so it dont matter much. > > > > > I just read Machado for the last time and filed him. You will find > > > > > what LOrca pinched from him out of Verlaine as well as lots of > > > > > lovely landscape descriptions (which I cant do) > > > > > > > > > > But he was well worth reading. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Just checked out my MIchelin 'Spain' and the quote I use > > > > >> in the poem was said by Boabdil, the last Emir of GRanada, 's > > > > >> mother to him as they took their last look at Granada on > > > > >> being ejection. The spot on the road where she said it > > > > >> is called 'The Moor's Sigh'. Perhaps I should have put > > > > >> the quote in italics. Too late now. But I did use it for > > > > >> the title of the Lorca poem. (There is a Bruce Springsteen > > > > >> quote hidden there as well. . I was listening to his 3-CD > > > > >> live set as I wrote it). > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > > > > >> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > > > > > > > > >