Okay, I get both of you on this....
Living on (borrowed time?).....
Doug
On 13-Oct-08, at 12:10 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> Poetry is alive and well. It is written, relished and read in a
> thousand
> tongues around the globe, in a myriad of shapes and sizes. The
> influence of
> yesterday's poetry is, thankfully, wilting on the vine, but that is
> not the
> end of poetry. It thrives in deserts and beneath the oceans, it
> bellows in
> outback stations and leaps in exotic whorehouses, it soars in
> cathedrals and
> whispers in alleyways by neonlight, it is read by torchlight under
> covers,
> it is written in refuge centres with a pencil and in pindan with a
> stick ...
> It is celebrated, it is ignored, it is here now and hardy,
> regenerating cell
> by cell (parthenogenesis) on all continents of the world.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2008/10/13 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Some people these days say that poetry is dead, some violently deny
>> it. My current image of the art is that of Desdemona while being, and
>> after, suffocated by Othello: murdered but still talking in its last
>> gasps, raising up from its pillow on a final breath. The
>> Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I Ching has a line somewhere :
>> 'persistently ill, but still does not die' , which takes one beyond
>> poor Desdemona, as of course her last revival is, well, curtains for
>> her if not quite then the play.
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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>
Douglas Barbour
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