tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993045826856544697.post5216347205059849037..comments2023-12-19T09:49:33.560+00:00Comments on streams of expression: Luke Roberts, TO MY CONTEMPORARIES david_grundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09822972751622883772noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993045826856544697.post-34698921607526411142016-03-01T10:47:22.876+00:002016-03-01T10:47:22.876+00:00Hi David,
This is one of those pieces where the ...Hi David, <br /><br />This is one of those pieces where the pretence that we don't know each other, that you don't know who Luke is, or Jack is, and so on, has a strange twisting effect on the writing -- it doesn't make it a bad piece, far from it, but nonetheless it does something to the sentences. <br /><br />I'd be interested to hear what you think that something is, and how you negotiate that; what for you the role of the explicatory writer is, and why he (in this case) can share intimacies no more candidly than the poet he writes about -- that might be a little strong, but I'm just trying to lever open the language here. I don't want to ask too-specific a question anyway, but I do want to hear your thoughts! <br /><br />It's a beautiful piece, on a truly beautiful and important poem -- important for me, I mean; one of the poems I'll carry into hell as proof that I wasn't always there.Neilnoreply@blogger.com