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hours worth gulp in three weeks i need to hand out my last bunch of work for class discussion nothing like a deadline to get you going here are some quotes from my reading packet to tease you only fables present the world as it should be and as if it had meaning kurt gödel austrian american logician mathematician and philosopher the original muses might be imaged now as little apples home computers wired into the great mother memory bank of the world promiscuously fingered by the swift digits of the global villagers but a computer does not a muse or music make phyllis webb we have to break down poetry into its elements just as the chemists and physicists are doing in order to reform the elements william carlos williams sir in your otherwise beautiful poem the vision of sin there is a verse which reads every moment dies a man every moment one is born it must be manifest that if this were true the population of the world would be at a standstill i would suggest that in the next edition of your poem you have it read every moment dies a man every moment 1 1 16 is born the actual figure is so long i cannot get it onto a line but i believe the figure 1 1 16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry i am sir yours etc charles babbage charles babbage to tennyson 1851 and a poem tell all the truth but tell it slant success in circuit lies too bright for our infirm delight the truth s superb surprise as lightening to the children eased with explanation kind the truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind emily dickinson posted in ma poetry reading writing 9 comments mid year break june 30 2009 by helen heath reading is sexy i ve tried to do some different things to keep me going over the break like watching some of the lannan videos and listening to podcasts i ve also just spent a fab long weekend away with emma meg francie and mel from damien s class and my mate tina for a bit of intensive reading and writing with a workshop atmosphere it s worked so far i haven t had time to miss class i m glad i handed my reading packet out before the break so i wasn t wasting time fretting about it i m feeling good about my portfolio so far i have about 60 pages of poems in three sections with a sequence of ghazals in the middle section hopefully to be the gem that the book hangs on this takes the pressure off for the second half i like to spend plenty of time revising my work and there s still time to come up with some better poems so some of the weaker ones can drop out i dropped them off to my lovely supervisor today and we meet on friday to discuss a couple of my poems have been accepted for online journals swamp 4 and soon to be released 4th floor which is encouraging and i ve got a couple of readings lined up for later in the year writers on mondays which is part of the class requirements and stand up poets at the palmerston north library both in september exciting news is that helen rickerby asked to publish a chapbook of my work through her publishing house seraph press and we are at page proof stage with that thanks helen posted in ma poetry reading writing 5 comments jorie graham june 30 2009 by helen heath lannan foundation video the dream of the unified field selected poems 1974 1994 bill mentioned jorie graham on his blog and i looked her up her style took my fancy so i thought i d watch her interview iiml has a video library but you can also download podcasts here she has a reputation for being difficult to read in response she said that an apprenticeship to the work of the poet is often required to gain understanding you need to become acquainted with their collected work their obsessions language etc things unfold after in depth reading try reading all their work in chronological order as fragments will be more difficult this did make sense to me especially in light of my experience with louise glück she also discussed difficulty of subject if people don t have the knowledge eg classical greek myths to understand my poetry that s not my problem ha i do angst about the scientific content of my work and if readers will comprehend it it s quite liberating to hear poets say things like that it is quite an elitist attitude and one that i have some problems with yet when she said that i couldn t help thinking yes on language she said something like understanding the complexity of language leads to an understanding of the complexity of your inner world she wants to challenge people to extend themselves and surely that can only be a good thing she also said abstracting emotion doesn t work rehearse your vocabulary on the concrete first before you approach the invisible internal or abstract approach the invisible via the senses read hopkins for example i think this is probably good advice for me to follow with my elemental sequence they only started working once i added concrete sensual connections after watching the video i trotted over to the library and got out her selected poems for a read the title immediately appealed as it harked back to the field theory of poetry that phyllis webb talked about the blurb reads jorie graham s poetry insists that the visible world exists but what is its existence beyond the subjective the merely lyric she ventures with philosophical rigour into an area saturated with phenomena in helen vendler s phrase a place of shifting perspectives vertiginous reversals but always moving towards possible celebration those who argue that poetry and science are at each other s throats find here a poetry which brings into tense equilibrium science philosophy and history well i d love someone to say that about my work it s interesting to see her form change over time her lines grow longer and longer couplets and stanzas disappear poems grow longer in the late 90 s her lines get so long and the last word or words of the line tab out to the end or sometimes she tabs and then goes on then breaks a stanza mid way en dashes too i like it in fact i tried it out on some new poems this weekend her poem i watched a snake is interesting each stanza introduces a notion of sewing stanza 2 thread stanza 4 knot stanza 5 stitch stanza 6 pattern final stanza stitches pattern fastens in addition the snake has duel meaning of biblical lust versus work and then desire is the honest work of the body passion is work that retrieves us this is overlapped with an elizabeth bishop style of observancy in the lannan interview she talked about self and separation body spirit mind in this poem she seems to be trying to stitch them all together very clever posted in ma poetry reading writing 3 comments on libraries i have known june 12 2009 by helen heath how old was i when i got my first library card i m not sure maybe six it was the 1970 s everything was burnt orange and chocolate brown i remember being very pissed off that i couldn t borrow adult s books with my junior library card i remember reading all the cricket magazines and scores of fiction i would usually read a book a day mum worked her way through the entire crime fiction section they all had yellow hard covers with a red stripe i don t remember what dad got out but he had stacks of science books by his side of the bed richard dawkins and the like my older brother liked science fiction and my younger sister had new readers like hop on pop she was quite precocious and memorized dr seuss books from an early age in fact we all learnt to read before we started school thanks to mum we were members of the lower hutt war memorial library opened in 1953 the main entrance of the library has two huge murals the first their sacrifice with service men and women looking bereft under a tree branch with barely a leaf and the second preserved freedom with happy children and respectful prayerful adults some harvesting fruit presumably the fruit of the servicemen s labours it was theirs to make but not to share the morrow carved in stone underneath oh the waspy guilt i felt each time i passed it was it disrespectful to look at it for too long was it disrespectful to not look at all of course it was fitting to have such a serious massive piece of art in such a serious massive to a child public building the legacy was one of knowledge guilt duty humility things my parents also felt were important things they would have been taught in their formative years my father has an old brochure calling for financial support for the new library and attached little theatre titled a call to sacrifice it begins thus this brochure is a naked and unashamed call upon you in the name of the city to make a sacrifice and its purpose is to inform you why it makes no appeal to your personal self interest does not offer you something for nothing and asks you to give not necessarily that you may receive can you imagine that kind of appeal now what a joke why not let the rates pay for it because a cultural centre such as is proposed will serve to remind us that they that have left us shall never grow old for culture like the spirit of man is of abiding value and why should they make this sacrifice in memory of others who gave up to six years of previous life in the heyday of youth toiling in the hot and arid deserts or in the bitter cold of stormy mountains and enduring the suffering and dangers of the battlefield that you might enjoy bountiful prosperity and the comforts of home whoa i don t think i remember reading a brochure with that kind of language printed in my life time finally some of the weirdest sentences that came from my parent s lips began to make sense what has this got to do with reading or libraries i guess we should be grateful that we have access to these kinds of cultural havens acknowledge that knowledge is power and also be grateful that this knowledge is available to all members of the community no matter what their income mind you the kind of knowledge available in 1977 or 1987 in the lower hutt library seemed even from a child s perspective to be limited what did they want us to know what was safe for us to know what was missing still libraries have always been a special revered place a family outing a church for atheists like me perhaps maybe that s why it seemed appropriate to me to have such mixed feelings of lust for knowledge guilt pleasure and worship all mixed up together there was also a secret code to learn when you joined the club the dewey decimal system from 000 generalities to 900 geography history 821 poetry in english and index cards filed in wooden drawers you could flick through all the books with the tips of your fingers and find what you wanted i still love index cards it was not just books either this was the place i discovered the face magazine paul kelly and the coloured girls alongside mervyn peake and elizabeth smither once i d graduated to an adult s card in the 80 s all these things seemed so far removed from my everyday reality i couldn t afford to dress like the cool things in the face i couldn t find any cool records in the local record stores i d never be fuchsia in gormenghast and i d never be a published poet not while i was still here anyway it was inevitable i moved to the wellington central library and never looked back it was an old classically styled building near the old town hall surely the classical styling would transmit knowledge by osmosis the steps echoed as i walked up to the fresh index files there were notices on the wall for spanish language teachers guitar teachers you name it i felt smarter just being there then glorious i discovered you could borrow art prints i was cultured then the library got cultured or rather modernised and moved to a new designer premises style seemed to rule over substance it seemed they d blown the budget and couldn t afford any new books lucky for me i had a card for the vic uni library non fiction ruled anthropology feminism literary criticism theory theory and more theory until i was ready for real life i didn t belong to even one library while i travelled i was doing my practical i still read of course but my unsettled state didn t allow for the ties of membership finally i arrived back home and settled in a small seaside village i was ready for membership but all previous memberships had lapsed i began with the paekakariki village library about 3m x 4m in size i got out picture books that s all i read for several years i joined the paraparaumu library too it wasn t much bigger i moved onto parenting books paraparaumu library was relocated into much larger premises the extent of their collection was revealed i started comfort reading ya fiction diy recipes and craft books i was almost ready for adult fiction again multiple memberships became addictive i got an out of town membership back at wellington central and the catalogues were now all on line i was inter loaning reserving you name it i was click happy on the internet i was really in the zone again from feminism to craft to poetry to self help to fiction to ya fiction to diy to zines to dvds to cds maybe i was ready for theory again my multiple memberships extended to include one more back to vic where the juicy lit crit awaits on the same campus a small but perfectly formed graduate s library at the institute of modern letters delights me i recently returned to the lower hutt library to check out their revamp after visiting my father the index files were gone the children s section was moved to a mezzanine even one of the large murals was moved from behind the issues desk to a far wall i ll be betting they don t use a date stamp now but the huge murals in the formal foyer still totally overwhelmed me i took a photograph was it disrespectful to photograph it was it disrespectful to not remember familiar feelings of guilt came over me i was ready to be told off by a librarian but they were too busy being nice to little kids the rest of the building had of course shrunk with age like my father has lost inches in height it s a suburban library nothing more nothing less i walked out through the back entrance and wandered through the historical graveyard kicking up leaves it was time to go posted in ma reading 6 comments older posts i m helen i live in paekakariki on the kapiti coast new zealand syw has been a craft blog for quite a while but this year i m devoting my life to writing a book of poetry check out my online store selling re usable menstrual products red rag welcome to my crazy world categories categories select category altered books art buttons clothes craft craft markets craftivism creativity fabric fiction flashback friday food gardening geekery give away holidays home life journaling knitting ma music needlework paper poetry politics printing protest reading refashion session sewing shop sustainability swaps thrifting uncategorized vintage visual arts writing twitterings tweets by showyourworking find me elsewhere flickr frida s wardrobe helen squared my etsy shop my felt shop red rag turbine friends ahipara 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