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GentleReader9 
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 Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:
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Thank you for sharing the link to "Pipistrelle" read by Mark Doty, Saffron!
There were so many wonderful lines that I was tempted to import back to this site for use in other contexts: "Is it because I am American that I think the bat came to address me?"; or his characterization of Charles' calling the bat's cry "navigational" to be "a modest, rational understanding." So much of what is posted at booktalk strikes me as happening at the level of "a modest, rational understanding." Personally I feel so much more affinity with the side Mark Doty seems to occupy in contrast to Charles, the other poet in the poem -- that of "the tale," although I don't want it to be opposed to or exclude "the lyric," either.
What I love is that reach of the experience into the imagination the poem takes to include other characters and their speech inside of a fantasy only the poet can hear, moving in the course of the poem from, overhearing "the night's one-sided conversation," to the concluding line where the poet lets the night have the last word, as only the poet "hears" it: "'A word in your ear,' says the night." Oooh! I shudder with almost sensual satisfaction at the way he encompasses and presents his inner sense of the voice as the voice of the world itself, heard uniquely from inside of him. That's the kind of thing reading and writing are for. |
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