[New-Poetry] Poems by others: Laura (Riding) Jackson, "The Troubles of a Book"

[David Bircumshaw]

James, when you say you agree with the poetics do you mean my mini-analysis
of the last four lines of Laura Riding's poem? I say this with a certain
pointedness as my seeming ability to do so makes me feel terribly alone too:
I am an underclass low-life from the detritus of Leicester, people like me
are not supposed to be able to dissect our betters, I get people from my own
class accusing me of being an academic, which I'm not, while at the same
time my social superiors indulge me as a a kind of educated monkey, isn't it
amazing that it can talk. Etc, etc.

Interested to know.

All the Best

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views"
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Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poems by others: Laura (Riding) Jackson,"The
Troubles of a Book"


> On 6/9/06, David Bircumshaw <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Don't quite agree, James. Looking again at the poem, Very Carefully, we
have
> > the repetition of 'letters' in the space of 4 lines, 'breath' and
'breathe'
> > on the same line and the god-awful rhyme of  'liveliness' and
'bookishness'.
> >
> > Could do better, as they say on school-reports. (Her pararhyme of 'with'
and
> > 'breathe' is quite snazzy though)
>
> It was the thought that counted for me. As fer poetics, I agree with you
100%.
>
>
> -- Jim
>
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