Duffy: must it be?new? cant it be a form I am working on?shape to things that come,a way to consider feelings of love, loss, hope, wished for loving, and love?
cant the poem itself be an experiment? often when you love someone, often under really difficult and hard circumstances you say things Indirectly __ so love is a poem of indirection.
cant the poem itself be an experiment? often when you love someone, often under really difficult and hard circumstances you say things Indirectly __ so love is a poem of indirection.
The poem is what exactly?
(a series of love letters)
(a series of love letters)
No one is sure . I mean, we know whata simple poem is; somone asked me at a party last weekend to recite a poem and I did.
But
Im very moved by what Deleuze says about wriitng and love
"One only writes through love, all writing is a love-letter: " THat describes my writing to a T. And then just think of the hidden letter in Finnegans Wake, the hidden and lost letter. All western literature, is embedded in letters, coming and going, epistles, trials, hidden caches, of letters, emails, emails that dont arrive, lost ones, forgotten ones. Love is a Great Letter.
Poetry too then, is a Great Letter. A love letter. Written to Someone.
"One should only die through love," Yes, Mister Deleuze knew his literature, eh? yes.
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So lets say the poems I write are always hidden THe surface is the cover. So its natural to ask what is under the cover. (see above)
thats a good question.________________________
Now as the person who writes it should I say what I think, or know is under the cover. Its my cover after all isnt it? but what if my cover is so deep I dont remember. what if i am lost and love has got me loster. what if it turns out I missed love.
or love misssed me.
what if I missed messages when I was supposed to get them. What does that mean,t o s ay I was supposed to get them?
or love misssed me.
what if I missed messages when I was supposed to get them. What does that mean,t o s ay I was supposed to get them?
What is supposed? I dont know, or I only some of the simplest part of the answers to these questions, so for me, I write the poems. Theres's someone I love.
yes, there is, and you know poems are usually written for the people we love. It can take a long time to love someone....
someone who's out of reach ~ .
And the fictions is perhaps my best way of loving and giving love, because it is not all worn down with the Me and the I.
So the question, is, the question is: Me? I ? what is that? is it something thatI ought to fictionalize?
Perhaps the greatest fiction is the I. THe I who loves, becuase when you love someone and really 'lose' yourself, at that moment, you are dying, dying of love, and love's dying, right? isn't that what the great poets were all writing?
And as well, I am not I when I write this. I is not I.
______________________________ Think of the women and men in the Gulag, that Solzhenitsyn's speaks who married and love people they never met for years. Sometimes for ten years, and knowing g they were there, made them live.. under terrible conditions..... This is something so powerful.. I have to think about it, and think. And learn. We learn and relearn all the time. love.
"your name
Where do you turn when these words don't
come a letter dangling
in the air
marks your fate
tests your time and"
where do you turn - draft re draft
Where do you turn when these words don't
come a letter dangling
in the air
marks your fate
tests your time and"
where do you turn - draft re draft
