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

[James Cervantes]

On 6/9/06, David Bircumshaw <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  They're not exactly specimens of high craft.

- Jim, another educated monkey


>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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