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> Robin writes: > > > And elsewhere and in another context, david b. invoked the name of > > W.S.Graham. Again a lyric to philosophic shift -- _Nightfishing_ to > > _Malcolm Mooney's Land_ and _The Instruments in Their Places_? > > It's not quite as neat as that, I think. _The Nightfishing_ is a > philosophical poem in the sense that it shows an obsession with Heraclitean > flux: > > I bent to the lamp. I cupped > My hand to the glass chimney. > Yet it was a stranger's breath > From out of my mouth that > Shed the light. > > Best wishes > > Matthew Matthew is correct, and I was (more than perhaps) being a little glib here -- but I do think there is more of a foregrounding of philosophical issues (and different ones -- primarily language?) in MML and IITP. But I don't know the earlier Graham as well as I should. Not so much that I shouldn't talk, as that I was hoping that, as happened with Matthew, someone would say something more pertinent than I could. But I +would+ be interested in Candice's take on the later Graham, given the language dimension. Grammersow and all. Robin