[New-Poetry] Backwards poetry

[TheOldMole]

What about Mark Strand's "Where are the Waters of Childhood?"

John Jeffrey wrote:
> The Robert Pack poem you're thinking of is "The Boat" ("I dressed my 
> father in his little clothes").  Pack's got another called, too, 
> called "Snow Rise" ("Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned 
> snow/Appear to lift up from the lake").
>
> For movies, there's Memento, where the scenes are shown in reverse order.
>
> John J
>
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> From: "Rsgwynn1 at cs.com" <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com>
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Backwards poetry
>
> In a message dated 9/23/2008 9:46:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> GrahamD at ripon.edu writes:
>>
>> For a classroom exercise, I'm looking for poems that reverse time.  
>> Not ones that focus on memories, but ones that actually describe time 
>> being reversed, like movies run backward, etc.
>>
>> Got any favorites?
>>
>>
>
> Not a poem, but there's that great scene in Slaughterhouse Five where 
> Billy watches a war documentary backwards.  Also J. G. Ballard's story 
> "Time of Passage."  There's a poem by Robert Pack in the old Mark 
> Strand anthology, but I can't find it now.
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