add comments re your first impression of duty here
posted by michaelf @ 6:43 AM
Monday, April 03, 2006
About Me
- Name: michaelf
- Location: melbourne, Australia
this blog is not about me, but about interesting books. but as i dont have a personal blog heres the brief info on my own books: 1) ode ode, salt 2003; 2) (new): BREAK ME OUCH, 3 deep, 2006 (graphic poetry). to purchase go to my publisher's websites or (or for any other reason) email me - readingrevival at gmail dot com. a raiders guide coming soon from giramondo.
previously
- geraldine mckenzie has agreed to answer questions ...
- spoke to brunswick st books about reading revival....
- comment on one poem of your choice from duty
- my flatmate said keats 'negative capability' in a ...
- duty received at least two excellent reviews: the ...
- reading being a kind of writing: you write the poe...
- live reading groups melbourne & perth. interested?...
- what i like about 'testament' p 38 is that it list...
- two copies available collected works bookshop and ...
- anyone interested in mail order can contact collec...
2 Comments:
Hello Michael
Below are notes from a journal kept in 2004, while studying at melbourne university, the first impression seems ignorant. Have posted them to post something.
27? 28/3 A saturday, late March, evening, reading, eating
What am I eating? grapes. Reading? Duty, by Geraldine McCl, o a spelling mistake, my brain not coordinating, or using some part of my coordinating neurones to think about by and riding on the right hand footpath over Swanston bridge which may have an independent name, thinking about by - what was I thinking? Duty by Geraldine McKenzie. Why? One because of her name, I've read reviews by the same name on Jacket on Anne Carson - the Autobiography of Red, which I'd read - and liked - but she didn't and I agree with why she didn't - and maybe I'd read it again and not like it anymore - I am very susceptible to opinion by the way - by the way who the hell am I talking to in this voice, you? Me? The grapes are good, organic.
P&O Cold Logistics, large dog, dodgy men in a dodgy mobile
babies in strollers. I must turn back. Gangland killings
master, mastery - VFT
How to use the page... the turn, the physical, hand.
turn, blank, the unexpected, pat
76 'fat on others' pain.'[I-V] 'this club's gone through a lot of hurt' - Bulldogs President [TV]
x like x
titles talking to you, hand over
[23?/4]
'Soon my mistakes will make me famous' Chernobyl Small Talk, Emma Lew The Wild Reply Black Pepper 1997
Franz the waiter at the Pflaume in Walter Abish's How German Is It? makes a matchstick model of the concentration camp of Durst, over which a new township has been built of Brumholdstein, named after a philosopher Brumhold who lived in a log cabin in the woods working out How Deutsch est is? in his spare time, in his basement. Franz lived with Ulrich and Helmuth von Hargenau.
'the waiter Franz's grotesque project'
'If you really want my opinion, said the mayor, I think this hobby of his is simply and expression of his detestation. I've got him down for a real anti-social type.' 95
And then read Testament, Geraldine McKenzie in Duty, borrowed because of the title
borrowed/burrowed
Ach! Europe
simon, thanks. even tho most of yr words arent about duty as such theres a kind of paralleling going on,as if theyre the notes of someone whos just read duty. the abishness is perhaps in mckenzie, & theres something similalry euro about lew & mckenzie, tho the tone is totally different (i think). theres something of 'during the fever' in lew, 'after' in mckenzie.
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