tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post8487920263820453613..comments2023-09-17T18:51:11.693+12:00Comments on Eyelight: Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-27619838307103057202009-08-26T19:34:18.210+12:002009-08-26T19:34:18.210+12:00I may well join CROSTOPI but I need to ponder this...I may well join CROSTOPI but I need to ponder this matter deeply...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-13381113502249519822009-08-26T18:33:09.856+12:002009-08-26T18:33:09.856+12:00Richard - this person has been claiming that you s...Richard - this person has been claiming that you support his shady agenda:<br />http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2009/08/against-space-and-time-crostopi.html<br /><br />Youre not part of this CROSTOPI thing are you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-15232647746952468882009-08-23T00:37:24.820+12:002009-08-23T00:37:24.820+12:00Thanks Amanda - I intend to copy that and read it ...Thanks Amanda - I intend to copy that and read it at the next Auckland Poetry Live.<br /><br />I haven't read much of Goethe although I have various of his books.<br /><br />I'm surrounded by books - my own and have a kind of horror that I wont be able to read enough of them before I leave this mortal coil!<br /><br />I love essays like that about writers..."Minotaur by Tom Paulin is very good. The Wound and the Bow and Axel's Castle (I just realised after googling that I also read To The Finland Station in 1969) Helen Vendler & Marjorie Perloff (in quite different but =lly valid ways); another book useful is "Odd Jobs" by John Updike - I haven't always read all the essays in these books but they are good to dip into...<br /><br />Is that John Barnes or Julian Barnes? Eliot Weinberger is also fascinating and as a writer I stumbled on W G Sebald who has some similarity to NZ's martin Edmond who is in Australia and writes brilliantly. here - Michelle Leggott and Jen Crawford write fascinating stuff...but earlier writers are Baxter, Curnow and Smithyman who we Titus people consider to be the greatest writer - well the greatest writer possibly of poetry in the middle part of the 20th Century anywhere! So Scott Hamilton wants to start a discussion group on his large book Te Atua Wera (The Fiery God)...<br /><br />Of all these claims to greatness are relative and based on personal taste! Sam Hunt was legendary as a kind of traveling minstrel (I went to one of his readings and he was good) or a bard...influenced by Baxter who at his best is also great...<br /><br />Hope you are doing well - be great if you can make it here<br /><br />I'm in Panmure Auckland so easy to find my ph number and address so write or phone me when you get here or before email me whatever...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-43498747377762658482009-08-22T21:08:49.675+12:002009-08-22T21:08:49.675+12:00I love the collisions and shortcuts that jostle al...I love the collisions and shortcuts that jostle all through the density of words.. its "over wordy"-ness.<br /><br />I've been online very little too of late, but hatching something new in here soon. I know what you mean though.. screens are exhausting.. and yet so fascinating.<br /><br />I've just finished reading John Barnes' essay Goethe, The Power of Rhythm which was a beautifully written meditation and lots of bits and pieces of Baudrillard. I also finally stumbled on some Sam Hunt in a second hand bookshop here.Amanda Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-33775689686627781252009-08-22T16:34:08.436+12:002009-08-22T16:34:08.436+12:00Amanda - thank you - I don't seem to get or re...Amanda - thank you - I don't seem to get or receive emails from you - oh well..<br /><br />This poem was inspired when I was reading (again the early part of Ulysses by Joyce, also a poem by Herrick about urging his girl to get up and taste the day (life) and so on...<br /><br />I was wondering if it was all bit much - a bit over wordy though...<br /><br />Forgive me if I don't read so much on line of your own work; I get tired looking at screens - I really need to get new glasses but I cant afford them just now - I lost my other ones..<br /><br />But I will have good look at your Blog when I can soon..<br /><br />I'll check something else to see a possible reason your emails aren't getting through<br /><br />Keep well!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-85753691529349299112009-08-21T21:49:26.437+12:002009-08-21T21:49:26.437+12:00Richard, This is fantastic!
I believe cyberspace ...Richard, This is fantastic!<br /><br />I believe cyberspace may have devoured my reply to your note.. I shall try again...<br /><br />love<br />AmandaAmanda Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630905497211235099noreply@blogger.com