This got away from me before I had finished;
100
light on the air he lived
deftly delightly with
a personal speech
if he was over
in gracing going
in falling unselfish
a bright tight lad
kind to them all
ever our loss
a winner in his words
all gentle and warm
wit was unrealised
when from us he went
from For The Fallen, by Ric Caddel, for whom wit was realised.
Mairéad Byrne
Assistant Professor of English
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI 02903
www.wildhoneypress.com
www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com
>>> [log in to unmask] 04/01/03 13:53 PM >>>
I've just heard that Ric died this morning at 11.45 a.m.
A wonderful writer and a lovely man.
Randolph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: hex renditions and poetry
> Hi Doug,
>
> No, I don't recall hearing the Simone version back then that much
either.
I was probably listening to other things. But I think Jill said that she
had
the Animals version and Arni said he had heard the Alan Price, the lead
singer of the Animals, version, so perhaps that was the psychedelic
version,
which seems more likely than CCR, and which may have well had that same
screaming quality of Screamin' Jack Hawkins, since that was a
characteristic
of the Animals, though I can't seem to bring to mind their rendition of
"I
put a spell on you," not this morning anyway. Though, of course, as Jill
and
Arni noted there have been many other versions.
>
> Well, I wonder if there is some significance in this. Several failed
attempts to start a thread on poetry among the many dark threads of war,
and
we end up going on and on about music like the sixties. How funny.
Perhaps
all this requires some sense of poetry that is much closer to lyric, to
music, and singing. I guess one consideration would be how these events
will
alter poetry. I would think probably toward compression and music.
Though I
imagine there would be counter pressures, a perhaps different sort of
polarity. For instance, perhaps a more populist or didactic poetry? like
the
Dario poem that Kent posted or lamentably, the way in which the most
popular
poet of the sixties was Rod McKuen, though there are . And on the other
hand, perhaps a more obdurate verse. More lyric. But then that seems
like a
plea and an admonition, at the same time.
>
> More lyric,
>
> Rebecca
>
> Rebecca Seiferle
> www.thedrunkenboat.com
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 04/01/03 07:49 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: hex renditions
>
> >
> > Hi Rebecca
>
> I see so many further notes on this I may never get to read them all,
but:
>
> yes, the psychedelic version may bb the CCR one, but I also had in my
mind
> the Hawkins one with that scream, so I don't know. I agree about the
NIna
> one being more seductive, but cool. I didn't hear it that much back
then
> though, as I recall (which I probably don't).
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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>
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>
> I fear this war
> will be long and painful
> and who
> pursue
> it
> Lorine Niedecker
> >
>
