I'm glad you liked it, Ted. She is a poet I've followed, who seems to update the Gertrude Stein I've always liked as well. I like to think, one day, my noggin will grow up to be like hers.
She's an amazing poet, I think. What I've always admired is that her brain seems to coexist fairly comfortably with her feelings and body. I need a model for that often. Seems I can access it most on gray days. :)
maybe it's because I'm not much of an intellectual, but what's great to me is having to search each line for her point... as if searching through folds of the bedsheets or stacks of papers on the table.
No, no: Not at all! That's exactly, in my opinion, the approach that should be taken with poetry like this -- the kind that sort of unhinges as it goes. You're supposed to have fun with it and link the meanings together like tinker toys, as you see things fit. It's not so egg-heady as people might initially think; it's designed to let you find the meaning, I think.
And I see the same thing you do: An effort to link public and private intercourse. I just couldn't help giggling as I thought of diplomats, say, seriously re-positioning themselves sexually, around and over a table, with their mugs set intently -- leg over shoulder, etc. :)
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seems to me she is drawing a parallel between forms of intercourse.
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guess I'm overstating the obvious...
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And I see the same thing you do: An effort to link public and private intercourse. I just couldn't help giggling as I thought of diplomats, say, seriously re-positioning themselves sexually, around and over a table, with their mugs set intently -- leg over shoulder, etc. :)
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I've been running all day and hope to get a break shortly to relax with it and let it work its magic.
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