The near interview of Richard Z: Re: Waiting for poems to come

» danceswithwinos - Re: Waiting for poems to come

inga...heaney uses a fishing analogy and appears to suggest that to write poetry you have to be old...old men by a river bank spitting tobacco juice and understanding worms...he also refers to the memory pool..a static almost stagnant thing where 'life'... here you can imagine a grotesque creature dripping slime and farting putrescence...responding to some awful pale half dead bait...alternatively ...his analogy evokes pictures of an eden dawn when all thing were new...and he casts his line into glittering subterranean streams...hooking brilliant rainbows of words which are given life by his experience of EXISTING...and i think this is the important point...existence and particular perception...a developed skill with words...young or old can develop these... for heaney though in some of his work he needs his age...and experience and memory..and the other things he mentions...i think he is talking about how he writes now...in these days...its what his experience has taught him amd he fishes now like that...a handle worn smooth ...

-- posted by danceswithwinos