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Benny Bunter
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They're good names
luka
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this is Science Sam
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Sam Wilson Fletcher - The Learned Pig
Sam Wilson Fletcher is a poet and a scientist. After studying chemistry and quantum mechanics at Oxford University, he worked for a while in secondary schools, then started a geoscience PhD at Harvard. Since then his research focus has been the form and evolution of rocky coastal landscapes...
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Benny Bunter
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There was a maid her
name was Jim
they always took her
name for him
name was Jim
they always took her
name for him
luka
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this is Jim https://twitter.com/OLDSIRHENRY ask him for a poem
luka
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Bottom poem - Arthur Rimbaud
Reality being too thorny for my great personality. --I found myself nevertheless at my lady's, an enormous gray-blue bird soaring toward the moldings of the ceiling and trailing my wings
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Benny Bunter
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I don't do Twitter. I think we would have a thread surveying the contemporary poetry scene though
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Oh look he posted that one I posted the other day. Good taste
luka
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i like this one a lot its from otherhood imminent profusion
Benny Bunter
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Been reading and really enjoying the White Stones today, especially that little run of Break It, Against Hurt and Moon Poem. And The Glacial Question, Unsolved is amazing!
Was thinking it'd be worth going over them again and make a list of all the words that keep recurring and a few notes - as mystifying as it all is, it's clearly a very coherent collection with a sustained mood that I reckon will repay spending time on.
Got up to Aristeas, which I plan to read more thoroughly tomorrow morning along with the notes Luka posted here in the thread, cos it's longer and I think it's gonna be a special one.
Also flicked forward to read a little bit of the Notes on metal essay, and it looks like reading that properly might unlock a lot of the meaning of this book - the word 'quality' crops up quite a lot in the poems in a way I can't quite get my head round, and I see he talks about that in the essay.
Was thinking it'd be worth going over them again and make a list of all the words that keep recurring and a few notes - as mystifying as it all is, it's clearly a very coherent collection with a sustained mood that I reckon will repay spending time on.
Got up to Aristeas, which I plan to read more thoroughly tomorrow morning along with the notes Luka posted here in the thread, cos it's longer and I think it's gonna be a special one.
Also flicked forward to read a little bit of the Notes on metal essay, and it looks like reading that properly might unlock a lot of the meaning of this book - the word 'quality' crops up quite a lot in the poems in a way I can't quite get my head round, and I see he talks about that in the essay.
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Benny Bunter
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Here's that essay that the Aristeas poem is based on.
The Legend of Aristeas: Fact and Fancy in Early Greek Notions of East Russia, Siberia, and Inner Asia
The Legend of Aristeas: Fact and Fancy in Early Greek Notions of East Russia, Siberia, and Inner Asia
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Might as well dump these screenshots here as well, could be useful
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Strong links to a previous poem in the book, Frost and Snow, Falling.
This might be worth a read:
"One of the poems in The White Stones is based on the story of a mediaeval missionary to China printed in a book edited by the historian Christopher Dawson. Dawson was also a friend of David Jones from the 1920s on, and one of the 50 influences cited by him in the introduction to The Anathemata.
The book is The Mongol Missions and it was published in 1955."
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This might be worth a read:
"One of the poems in The White Stones is based on the story of a mediaeval missionary to China printed in a book edited by the historian Christopher Dawson. Dawson was also a friend of David Jones from the 1920s on, and one of the 50 influences cited by him in the introduction to The Anathemata.
The book is The Mongol Missions and it was published in 1955."
Prynne and Christopher Dawson
Dawson and T he White Stones One of the poems in The White Stones is based on the story of a mediaeval missionary to China printed ...
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Benny Bunter
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Something else that looks worth reading in regard to Aristeas (haven't read it yet either)
Benny Bunter
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Apologies for shitting up the thread with a load of links that I haven't even read properly myself yet, btw. I'm just curious to see if going in deep on glacial question, Aristeas and notes on metal will help with understanding the first half of the book, which is very cryptic, or whether it is a book of two more or less unconnected halves, as proposed earlier in the thread. I'm not sure about that yet.
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