dates to come and the BBB readings!

it was indeed great today — i was very, too talkative, sorry! (i got 12 hours of sleep last night!)

i LOVE the BBB, mary ann! …yes!

to help with readings: i will post something beckett (i think “ill seen, ill said” or another short piece from his late prose), i will post barthes “the death of the author” (i know it’s an obvious choice, nonetheless it is very good, worth our while), and i will post a pdf of Joyce’s “The Dead” (since i was talking about it today and maybe not everyone has read it). obvi no one needs to read any of these, just there incase.

(and thinking of Joyce’s accent, i remembered i have an audio recording of him speaking and reading. which we could listen to perhaps. except i have to get it digitized. i have to get a few DVDs digitized next week, will bring that as well.)

…look fwd to seeing everyone again next week! thank you, mary ann — what fun this is!

~maureen

Sorry I missed you . I LOVE to speak of Irishness
as if I were
I HIGHLY recommend this Maximal poem by Eavan Boland
“Anna Liffey.”d

It’s brilliant and shows how one puts their life’s story into a poem
and makes it wail and sing, like a lyre.
Or electric guitar.

https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/boland/AnnaLiffey.html

Here are first 2 stanzas. The poem wanders (not meanders
too quick and dark for that(
like a/the river, like an exile’s life.

Look at first line.

The poem also takes many different shapes, on the page I mean.
FLows gets caught, stalls, runs, deepens.

I’d love it if someone reads it, Just discovered it
in a recent interview by Boland’s students ,
some from Stanford some from Dublin.

Have a lovely week, all!
Patricia the other one.

oh yes, patricia, “anna liffey” is one of her best and most loved poems!

my favorite collection of hers is in a time of violence (i think that’s the title?) and i’m pretty sure AF is in that collection. also “the pomegranate” is in that one, my favorite Boland poem.

thank you for that reminder!

~mf.

I think my favorite is Outside History: I came to Boland through her
“domestic”
wetf that means today poems, of which of course the Pomegranate is one…

Yes and oops what’s the other one with a daughter in it
similar to Pomegranate.

Also love: 2 am
A lamb would freeze out here…

She was a true mentor for me though she never read a piece of my work.
WISH WISH WISH I’d studied even one workshop with her.

do you mean she literally mentored you? i have heard that despite all her feminism, her ‘letter to a young woman poet’ (after my rilke), she was not generally available to young woman poets, or any other woman poet, and this was a loss, to women poets, and to the world. the picture in my head of eavan boland is like one of those characters in a colm toibin novel — he does such a brilliant job characterizing irish people in his novels and he has these brilliant unforgettable characters who are like, all walled into themselves, all inside, not sharing or sharing themselves with the world, us. she strikes me as one who had a very different public persona from the private one. which is fine, of course. except that, would it were she’d been more like langston hughes, spent more of her time mentoring up and coming woman writers. …but perhaps she did do that with you? i hope so. 🙂 ~mf.

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Hi friends! Wanted to share a few quick things:

A short, simple, but intriguing take on Barthes’ A Lovers’ Discourse related to correspondence, which might interest some:

https://pwrites.princeton.edu/tools-and-insights/on-roland-barthes-and-writing-letters-to-our-beloveds/

And this is a piece in the LARB about Barthes’ unpublished letters:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-snatches-of-free-time-on-collecting-roland-barthes/

I’ll also upload Camera Lucida to the “Library” if anyone wants to check it out!

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Thank you Maddie!
Will check out both LARB and the Camera Lucida.