tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post1202844427909354304..comments2024-02-15T23:43:42.179+11:00Comments on poetry & ideas: TIM HEMENSLEY'S BIRTHDAYcollectedworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-64061963378405393732008-12-04T22:45:00.000+11:002008-12-04T22:45:00.000+11:00correction : meant to say, like your recent photos...correction : meant to say, like your recent photos on your site... You speak very clearly with your images. Congratulations!collectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-26589321776267619622008-12-04T22:40:00.000+11:002008-12-04T22:40:00.000+11:00Hello Jurate, and oh dear, feeling the pain in you...Hello Jurate, and oh dear, feeling the pain in your message here,for you & your dear late dad for one,and thank you for writing about Tim... It's not just poeticism when I say, using your words, that the heart does break and breaks through into the circle from the tyrannical line --the infinite circle. And yes, we all live and ultimately live on through each each other. We're here, substantial in our insubstantiality, like your recent on your site, gossamer beautiful as life is...Take care, Kriscollectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-81494437942368391582008-12-04T14:42:00.000+11:002008-12-04T14:42:00.000+11:00Oh lord, Kris, Tim's words are so hard to read. Th...Oh lord, Kris, Tim's words are so hard to read. Thus but for the grace of whosoever go we all etc etc. The dead live on, the dead live with us, it's almost too heartbreaking...Francescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05453001740558478643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-35372467348486413902008-12-03T21:38:00.000+11:002008-12-03T21:38:00.000+11:00correction ...21st July (when Tim died) not 23rd (...correction ...21st July (when Tim died) not 23rd (November, when he was born)collectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-89846847436417107552008-12-03T21:28:00.000+11:002008-12-03T21:28:00.000+11:00Thanks Vera, wish wish wish it could be otherwise ...Thanks Vera, wish wish wish it could be otherwise but there it is and has been since July 23, 2003... You touch on something else that once upon a time, in one's avant-garde past, wasnt really valued, namely having, in your words, "something to say to people". Not that we entirely cast it out and not that the attitude has entirely left one's thinking today : "assume the subject [or 'meaning'] and attend to the writing" was my creative-writing teaching axiom through the 70s & 80s, with the (learned) proviso that testament made its own demand which literature couldnt refute or refuse. But by the end of the 80s, the imperative of something-to-say had led me away from the meta-literary and back to the traditional address. The Philip Guston I'd been tickled by in the early 70s, notwithstanding running with the avant-garde, --and I'm thinking of his often quoted comment, "to hell with purity : I want to tell stories!"-- didnt substantially affect my poetry until the late 80s, early 90s when the lid came off and the stories just poured out! This is probably getting away from the point you're wanting to make, but Tim heard all our discussions, observed all our works as he was growing up in the households of the experimental poets & artists,and though he obviously had a sympathy for experiment his own contribution was direct --heartfelt lyrics, kick-ass rock'n'roll (as he would mirthfully say)... But, we know and he knew, it isnt mutually-exclusive, however much the progressivists & avant-gardists, or the conservatives for that matter, would like it to be... So, "viva the living and the dead" as you say. I join you in your toast!collectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-21172909158797913392008-12-03T16:57:00.000+11:002008-12-03T16:57:00.000+11:00Thanks for this, Kris. A priviledge to read, even ...Thanks for this, Kris. A priviledge to read, even though as John Harley says, the writing wasn't necessarily meant to be private. What strikes me is that Tim had something to say to people. He did it very well.<BR/>Viva the living and the dead!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-58856014510984602652008-12-01T08:47:00.000+11:002008-12-01T08:47:00.000+11:00Hi Genevieve, Good to have your response and to re...Hi Genevieve, Good to have your response and to read you on your web-site's prolific news & views compendium... Your comment interestingly begs a question as to the private & public aspects of any person let alone the deceased... Tim's rock'n'roll life was very much "out there', as they say. His death was marked by large concerts where the musicians & fans gathered. His funeral & wake was memorable in same way. His friend John Harley swears that Tim's journals were written to be read, as it were, a public & literary project as well as the daily & personal necessity.I go back to an understanding I had after he died, that dying does not mean one ceases to be. Existence is comprised of the living & the dead. Tim is still around though conducted now by his friends. Very interesting experience transcribing his handwriting --getting into his language & head, feeling part of him, feeling him... Best wishes, Kris Hemensleycollectedworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768731698615085925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815203981220831859.post-68967316805917222442008-11-23T22:43:00.000+11:002008-11-23T22:43:00.000+11:00Thank you for sharing Tim here, Kris.Thank you for sharing Tim here, Kris.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895689949182365454noreply@blogger.com