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Thank you. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: An untypical SAlly Purcell poem > If you look the March archives under 'SAlly Purcell' > I give the address to get the forthcoming Collected Poems > from. It is the Anvil Press whose website is at > http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com > > You may be able to order there. Scheduled for this month > but these things slip. > > > > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, schwartzgk wrote: > > > Douglas: > > > > This one takes the breath right from me. Thank you for this. I'm largely > > unaware of her work. Could you tell me some titles? (you could bchnl. if you > > want) This Is someone whose work I must be up on. > > > > Cheers, > > Gerald > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:42 PM > > Subject: An untypical SAlly Purcell poem > > > > > > > This is not a typical Sally Purcell poem. She wrote brilliant snowflakes > > > of poems of exceptional words building up to a stained glass window > > > which didnt tell a story directly, but I chose this poem of hers > > > from her third book for 'Lynx' because it spoke directly of herself. > > > I wanted to put up a selection of her poetry on my Website after her > > > death but the project vanished in the post to Oxford. > > > > > > I had forgotten I had the poem or I would have posted it earlier. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From Propertius > > > > > > > > > Let others write about you, or else you can stay unknown; > > > let a man praise you if he likes to sow the sand. > > > For believe me, all your gifts go with you, > > > carried out in one coffin one dark day, > > > and the passer-by will scorn your bones -- > > > he will not say, 'This ash was once a learned girl.' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] > > > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... > > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > > > > > >