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Saturday, June 18, 2022

NCLR: Night-blooming Cereus, Spring Tree Egg, Alice




From a recent North Carolina Literary Review zoom reading: three of my poems from a wild-and-free sequence influenced by the paralIelism of Hebrew poetry (via the lovely rhythms of the King James Bible) and a Yoruban form. Yep, a real Silk Road set of poems... And not formal in the way you may associate with my poems.

I never watch myself, so I can't make any promises...

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  1. Roderick Robinson2:52 AM, June 29, 2022

    The only thing that's more difficult than pronouncing parallelism is to spell it. Verb. sap.

    I'm not so inhibited as you; I watched and listened. I envy you the natural acoustic of that room; attempts to record and blog-publish my singing from the papery pit that is my study have all failed. Your position - sitting at a table - is OK but, as an experiment, try a recording standing up and see if there's increased response to the higher frequencies in your voice.

    When I've (rarely) read my sonnets aloud for the blog I found I read them too quickly. Certainly compared with Eliot, Auden, Larkin and Thomas. This caused me to reflect on one of the judgments on Mozart - that the silences were almost as persuasive as the notes. Have you considered this?

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    1. Marly Youmans12:52 PM, June 29, 2022

      Thanks for the standing/speeding advice, RR! I did read more quickly than usual--something about those poems seemed pell-mell. But maybe that's just wrong, I don't know...

      Just back from Montreal. I suppose you consider that the realm of barbarian French.

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