File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1996/96-10-07.165, message 51


Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 15:47:17 +0100 (BST)
From: Laurel Ann Taylor <lat-AT-st-andrews.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: aquarian


Jorie Graham is a poet.  I think she is still at the University of Iowa.  
Her husband is a poet, too. John Galvin, or something like that, I think, 
but I may be wrong.  _The End of Beauty_ is a volume of poetry, with some 
fantastic stuff in it. 'The Veil' makes me cry every time I read it.  
Graham is supposed to follow in the footsteps of Wallace Stevens, but 
I've found none of his racism in her.  She's written several volumes of 
poetry.  I suggest to anyone to check her out!  Thanks for asking, and 
for the info on Aquarius!

Laurel

Laurel Taylor
University of St Andrews
Dept of French, Buchanan Building                          
Union Street
St Andrews KY16 9PH
SCOTLAND

'You see, there _is_ a veil, or no, there is no veil but
there is 
a rip in the veil,
which is the storyline,
what the lips just inconceivably apart can make
that cannot then, ever again, be uncreated--
(and then she wept) (and then a second backfire now at x remove)--
On the one side the tearing (the story)
on the other the torn (what it lets shine
through) and in between the veil being rent (_for all
eternity) by this place made of words [...]

                                      from 'The Veil' in _The End of Beauty_
                                      by Jorie Graham 
                                      





   

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