Whew! Thanks for signalling the Han Solo refererence Dominic - I'd have
missed that ; P !
I grew up on the downslopes of the Brummagem (the bromage hill) and used
watch it, daily, the original Mordor, re-equipping its former smoky self
via scaffolding and cranes for its part in the new bland order. One of the
difficult things to negotiate as both reader and writer is that modernism
is too part of that faceless new order: there's no going back. Nor, it
seems, is there anywhere 'to go'. Zeroville is coming to town. I notice
I've become more appreciative of Beckett's late ultra-minimalist monologues
and narratives of late but that's because I'm getting on and more and more
people I know are dying - so it's kind of a sucking a bitter pill thing.
There is always metaphor of course, but that's not a negotiable currency
(Wittgenstein wasn't entirely right about private languages was he?)
best
dave
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>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:42:08 +0000
> From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: This month's poem for Ceasefire
>
> INTO MORDOR
>
> Rising, unstilled, roughly disquieted; as by
> high winds shaken, holding place barely - uproot
> pending sure as *enta geweorc* makes ruin
> tower infernal -
>
> love-work not love's labour but self-delighting
> self in other, ever to self returning
> strange, pellucid image at once dissolving
> into the ether -
>
> how to make of this a resilient fixture,
> binding freedom given its public licence
> may be taxing; still, let me here acknowledge
> militant furor
>
> uncurbed, unspent, forcing its transmutation:
> world-unmaking epoch to be concluded
> (spoilers!) if you credit the happy campers'
> meek jubilation -
>
> or if not, consider the default option
> stark foreclosure, smog of our immolation
> greasing rainfall, penance without remission
> frozen in carbon.
>
> * * *
>
> Why yes, I *have* lately received a copy of Prof. Hill's latest
> collection, thank you for asking. :P
>
> References are to the Old English poem known as "The Ruin", Tolkein's
> Ents, the disaster movie "The Towering Inferno", Gillian Rose, the
> GPL, Badiou's theory of evental forcing, David Graeber's book on Debt
> (which closes with an argument in favour of an international
> debt-forgiveness Jubilee), and Han Solo getting frozen in carbonite.
> Just so you know.
>
> Dominic
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:39:20 -0600
> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Listening 2
>
> Listening 2: J.S. Bach, WTC, Bk. 1 (Till Fellner)
>
>
> Serving the tri-state area.
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/
> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> Remains To Be Seen <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>*,
> Remains
> To Be Seen (Vol. II) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,**
> Remains
> To Be Seen (Vol. III) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,
> *Sonnets
> from the Basque & Other Poems <
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>
> *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Obras
> Públicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The Perfection
> of Mozart's Third Eye and Other
> Sonnets<
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >
> ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> Clones<
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> >
> ; **Tango Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **Theory
> of Harmony<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
> >
> ; **Rapsodie espagnole<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
> >
> ; **Guide to the Tokyo
> Subway<
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> >
> ; **The Sonnet Project<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
> >
> ; **G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter
> Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html
> >
> ; **Transparencies & Projections<
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> *
>
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>
> End of POETRYETC Digest - 11 Mar 2012 to 12 Mar 2012 (#2012-70)
> ***************************************************************
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