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15th Oct 11
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poetry favourites:
Society of Authors
and in the shop…
collections –
“The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey”
republished by Waterloo Press (originally by Cargo Press);
“Swimming Through the Grand Hotel”
and
“Just After Midnight”
Enitharmon Press;
“Selected Poems
1977 – 1992”
Sinclair-Stevenson;
translation –
“In Cyclops’ Cave”
Greville Press;
pamphlet in 18C type –
“Some Poetical Thoughts of Mad King George”
The Tom Paine Press
Mother
‘… all men are Noah’s sons.’
Richard Wilbur – from Still Citizen Sparrow
Mrs Noah was a little dimmer.
Not Bible fact but a mediaeval scold
who’d have got ducked
if she’d raised her village tongue
the way she did on board the ark.
Not my mother, this pauper myth
of husbands. Can’t see her my mentor.
Can’t think any woman I know
would like this scratcher either
cut off from powerful speech with God.
Pedant angel pinhead me!
Richard Wilbur means, we women
are included among Noah’s sons.
Sons include daughters, and men naturally
include women, so we are also Noah’s sons.
And this means, hanging loose, that
Mrs Noah was really Mr Noah himself,
very noble and worth copying of course
so anywhichway you and I are born of Noah
and we all had penises before the flood.
Judith Kazantzis
in collection, Flame Tree, 1988, Methuen,
ISBN 0-413-1788-0-3
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