Saturday, May 16, 2015



Yesterday morning I was dreaming I was with George Simcox and was considering how to get away in time to ring the bells here which as porter I had to ring, but 'Loveless circumstance' means the full impress of mechanarchy, functionalism, routine: friendship may have encouraged Stevie to introduce an element of non-naturalistic farce, as when Captain Maulay, announced by a loud crash, bounds into the room with a paper bag full of cream buns, or a German officer, his plane shot down, is fished out of the lake. Those jettisoned bodies / gazing comet-struck into / the god void / aboard the Momship - by day this is embarrassing, by night it is terrifying. Elsewhere, a woman leans over her waka, fish in one hand, breasts drooping realistically over her canoe. He seems to have become very engaged, being led astray by the ripened seed-capsule, which gapes wide on drying, to expel the dust-like seeds. He thinks it important that the specimens he sends retain their Maori customary names, whereas Hooker swiftly undresses them. He is hoping to play peekaboo with someone who comes along. More language for journeys. A crossing, a cut. The word for arrival at a destination. Suitable for all on-snow activities, and procedures to rotate the fields of language, accompanied by a certain lasciviousness - the phantasy, I mean, of intra-uterine existence. Apparitions and ghosts represent that ambiguity. That's what I want, / Said the Devil, / And threw one at him. It seems more relevant now than it did in his lifetime - a fern-green thing / from a spirit world. He had observed in old Maori culture that nearly everything was to a degree animate and full of spirits. This deepened his gloom, from the ground through a graceful swerve below (I think) the spring of the branches up to the tops of the timber. All possible voices were united, and then only through the 'thisness' of each object. He and the other novices had just come before the novice-master again to ask for 'little leaves' to keep such things as a watch, razor, pocket knife or scissors. The power of such absence is the chill it casts. It can only be read as something not yet made. But the whole of a man's movable property is his own, which includes his house and fences, as well as all his smaller goods, so New Zealanders prefer to live in a type of self-imposed anaesthesia. Lucky lucky. Listen! Listen! As if the tongue told & tolled. This further alludes to the nose - the proboscis - and its homophone “knows.” I had nothing in mind. The struggles of babies. TB. Sophie -> 0482 066077- Nipple pain -Feed/sleep signals - Pumping - when? How can you be hungry while I live in this city? I cannot endure this. The smaller the quantity of dead wood in your fence, the less does it hurt the sight. This pressure of cultural selection probably explains the second branching of the tree, where clues are present, but serve no real function. There too, perched in the tree or tied to the battleground by white tendrils of memory, are all the memorialists and decorators of the primal myth. 

Gerald Manley Hopkins, The Major Works 199
Robert Graves, Poetic Craft and Principle 125
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
Frances Spalding, Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography 173
Wanda Coleman, Bath Water Wine 165
Landfall 229 49, 38
Leicester Kyle, Koroneho 110
Peter Wells, The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso 365
Two journals
Aldi catalogue
Little Duck Finger Puppet Book
Michael Nardone, "Listen! Listen! Listen!: Jackson Mac Low's Phonopoetics
https://www.academia.edu/12050628/Listen_Listen_Listen_Jackson_Mac_Lows_Phonopoetics
Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves 185
Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand 230
The Arabian Nights, tr Husain Haddawy 349
John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare 1730-1840 83
Franco Moretti,  Graphs, Maps, Trees 72
Rachel Loden, Kulchur Girl
Jack Ross, "Leicester Kyle" http://jacket2.org/content/leicester-kyle
Leicester Kyle, Heteropholis http://leicesterkyle1.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/heteropholis-1998.html
Leicester Kyle, Options
Paul Mariani, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HWNDAGOUN6QC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=gerard+manley+hopkins+george+simcox&source=bl&ots=h-NFR-UYwq&sig=ws76gnYhr8c-KpapLrgbeZNCL78&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AZlUVbHNBovm8gWfi4G4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=gerard%20manley%20hopkins%20george%20simcox&f=false
Roopika Risam, "The Poetry of Unexecutable Code". http://jacket2.org/commentary/poetry-unexecutable-code
Peter Wells "Colenso: On how trees can save us and keep us sane"
http://www.colensostudy.id.au/Newsletters/newsletter%20June11.pdf
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The Victorian Web, "Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Brief Biography"
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/hopkins1.html
The Victorian Web, "Hopkins on Inscape and Instress"
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/hopkins1.html
The Poetry Foundation, "Gerard Manley Hopkins"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gerard-manley-hopkins
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William Colenso, "On the Maori Races of New Zealand"
http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_01/rsnz_01_00_002210.html
Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, Deirdre Brown, A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vuhaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%27the+maori+races+of+new+zealand%27+colenso&source=bl&ots=6kL8RbpJ0b&sig=fIbFnV4fXcWe6xv3-po0B4Hlte4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OX9VVfnjBIPdmAXql4HwDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q='the%20maori%20races%20of%20new%20zealand'%20colenso&f=false
The New Yorker, Joan Didion, "Last Words" precis
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/11/09/last-words-6
Adrienne LaFrance, "Why's this so good? No. 79. Joan Didion, Hemingway, and Mathematically Musical Writing. http://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/whys-this-so-good-no-79-joan-didion-hemingway-and-mathematically-musical-writing/

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