Sorry, Barry, but I just had a Bakhtin 'reader', with essays on him and
others of his ilk - It was fished out of one of the essays I think. But I'll
ask some learned souls around me, or maybe someone on this list could pin it
down. (It was a uni library book, and I am no longer a member of that staff,
so can't access it.)
Thanks for your comments about my part of the text.
Andrew
2009/3/12 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
> Andrew,
>
> Not sure exactly what format aspects lost on this end.
>
> I was very much taken by your quote from Bakhtin, but wondered where it
> might be
> found and how he elaborates on it. The twenties Parisian surrealists'
> practice of walking
> into cinemas, staying for a while, and then returning to a flaneur's day
> came to mind,
> though I doubt that's exactly what Bakhtin was referencing.
>
> Your poetic extrapolation quite delicate. I enjoyed reading it.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:16:47 +0900, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >*(This will lose format for those with 'plain text'. Sorry, can't help
> it.)
> >*
> >
> >I wake to
> >
> >one lyrical song,
> >
> >the other a single bell
> >
> >
> >
> >frogs on late night shift
> >
> >sleep now
> >
> >
> >
> >gecko holds fast on
> >
> >the window’s flywire
> >
> >
> >
> >cotton sheets fall over
> >
> >my wife’s reclining figure
> >
> >
> >
> >one breast escapes
> >
> >and a nipple
> >
> >tests the morning air
> >
> >
> >
> >by the bed I stand
> >
> >cock at half mast
> >
> >head in the interactive syntax of dreams
> >
> >
> >
> >~
> >
> >
> >
> >on my upper arm,
> >
> >a live branch in the tropical air,
> >
> >a praying mantis
> >
> >jumps, tree-leaf green
> >
> >with fine limbs, two red
> >
> >pinhead eyes on his chiseled
> >
> >face, balanced above
> >
> >praying hands on delicate arms,
> >
> >enquiring now of the air,
> >
> >of my body, of my pores
> >
> >and sweat.
> >
> > I stand
> >
> >to escort him outdoors,
> >
> >talking to him all the while,
> >
> >watching his arms and head rise up further
> >
> >as sound waves break over him, tongue
> >
> >of this strange tree
> >
> >talking
> >
> >lovingly to him.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Andrew
> >http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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