tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post3807548521264520756..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Wymondham Words: The notion of developmentGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-46999913462592913782010-09-25T23:11:27.451+01:002010-09-25T23:11:27.451+01:00George,
Thanks- this helps me.
"furiously th...George,<br /><br />Thanks- this helps me.<br />"furiously thinking poet" makes me smile- maybe it shouldn't but I guess that's my response to the words at least.<br /><br />RuthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-18440829335246912352010-09-25T21:09:11.526+01:002010-09-25T21:09:11.526+01:00I think it is, partly at least, about confidence, ...I think it is, partly at least, about confidence, Ruth: not caring too much how things seem to others, and being prepared just to look and listen intently with no distractions. Concentration is the point, but it's hard to concentrate when you feel you are being watched. Out of confidence and concentration comes, I suspect, a form of liberation. You go where the idea wants to go, trusting and concentrating. I think that is what Moniza and Anthony are doing.<br /><br />I am a furiously thinking poet, that's the way things work for me. There is relatively little difference between thinking through one's feelings and feeling through thought. Or so it seems, at best.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-51800582723874848712010-09-25T16:44:11.925+01:002010-09-25T16:44:11.925+01:00Seems that what you are getting at when you talk o...Seems that what you are getting at when you talk of development in poets is something to do with extraction or deletion. Maybe that is about clarifying memory as real affects that actually occur and how one attends to that. I don't know how much of a choice it is what one doesn't pay attention to. Maybe in poetry, art in general it becomes something more considered. How to forget and let small details really intensify? How those affects start to morph and have a life of their own- like in the Fish poem by Moniza Alvi.<br /> <br />Bibliography (from you last post) could have a chance to be interesting if it is seen as this incomplete relationship between the teller and the lived.<br /><br />I really like your poem, <br />"The Sense of Memory" for this reason; that it deals with the unfinished- the sense even of negative space which provides the invitation for some kind of wondering.<br /><br />THE SENSE OF MEMORY<br />By George Szirtes<br /><br />Not memories but the sense of memory,<br />as of a power, an enabling<br />like the sun on the street with its<br />delicate scribbling.<br /><br />To remember the sense of your beauty,<br />your weight, breath, movement<br />is enabling and powerful<br />as the sunlight on the pavement,<br /><br />which flits in and out of dark spaces in doorways<br />never quite filling a room that it enters,<br />but leaving dark spaces<br />like pockets, like splinters.<br /><br />____<br /><br />I used this poem for a garden sculpture and arts project I used to run for autistic adults. It was to start some thoughts about the way people moved around the garden-what became noticeable and compelling over time.<br /> <br />The connections with one another and through this piece of land were active doing patterns but the affects they sometimes generated were ephemeral; light and dark, speed of movement, distant sounds, wind, mood. Your poem dealt with this mixing of states which was something that everyone had a clear experience of.<br /><br />RuthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com