tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post114291866013532261..comments2023-08-22T21:11:59.355+12:00Comments on pohanginapete: Wellington: Dead or alive?pohanginapetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143336854249524382006-03-26T13:34:00.000+12:002006-03-26T13:34:00.000+12:00Hey CC, nice to see you here. Aargh, to see someth...Hey CC, nice to see you here. <BR/><BR/>Aargh, to see something like the hacked off hands of apes... don't want to visualise it. At least with mounted animals there's usually some attempt to present them in some semblance of lifelike attitudes; not much comfort, but compared to chopped hands... Fortunately that's unacceptable throughout much of the world now. I suppose we have to recognise that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143315109315378022006-03-26T07:31:00.000+12:002006-03-26T07:31:00.000+12:00Rexroth's Daughter sent me here, because I had ema...Rexroth's Daughter sent me here, because I had emailed her about my day yesterday. I went with a friend to Harvard University's Museum of Natural History and had gone, with reluctance, into the section with stuffed animals. In my email, I had even put the word "specimen" in quotes because I was so uncomfortable with it!<BR/><BR/>What I hadn't mentioned to RD was that just as we were entering the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143101389297746202006-03-23T20:09:00.000+12:002006-03-23T20:09:00.000+12:00Hi Larry. Your comment bears out what I'd heard el...Hi Larry. Your comment bears out what I'd heard elsewhere. Now I just have to hear it for myself! Not much doubt, though: knowing "Niafunke", and Ry Cooder's collaboration with V.M. Bhatt on "A Meeting by a River", I'm looking forward to listening to "Talking Timbuktu". Will look for "Heart of the Moon" too. Better start saving now...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the recommendations. Appreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143086513313510442006-03-23T16:01:00.000+12:002006-03-23T16:01:00.000+12:00'Talking Timbukto' is a marvelous CD. I've been l...'Talking Timbukto' is a marvelous CD. I've been listening recently much to the Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate 'In the Heart of the Moon,' which has the same tonality--it's wonderful music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143085182005969462006-03-23T15:39:00.000+12:002006-03-23T15:39:00.000+12:00Nice one, Dave! Thanks.Trix: Thanks :^D "Fossick" ...Nice one, Dave! Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Trix: Thanks :^D "Fossick" is one of those words that to me sounds old and interesting...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143084032155235662006-03-23T15:20:00.000+12:002006-03-23T15:20:00.000+12:00Okay. I just had to look up the term 'fossicked'. ...Okay. I just had to look up the term 'fossicked'. Apparently, it's also what I do for a living - who knew!!<BR/>Beautiful image of the female wren ... so true and imagined. Wonderful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143078892085704972006-03-23T13:54:00.000+12:002006-03-23T13:54:00.000+12:00A good post all around. I'm fascinated by the firs...A good post all around. I'm fascinated by the first photo - not exactly what the Brazilian modernists had in mind when they invented <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry" REL="nofollow">concrete poetry</A>!Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02596390440496594901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143068704551849442006-03-23T11:05:00.000+12:002006-03-23T11:05:00.000+12:00Thanks Lulu. Glad to share this part of the world...Thanks Lulu. Glad to share this part of the world with you. <BR/>:^DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143061444978648052006-03-23T09:04:00.000+12:002006-03-23T09:04:00.000+12:00Mary: Glover was a real character. Perhaps his bes...Mary: Glover was a real character. Perhaps his best-known poem is "The Magpies" — say "quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" to any New Zealander and they'll instantly understand you.<BR/><BR/>Isabelita: Yes, Ali Farka Toure died just recently. Abdul-Walid has a guest <A HREF="http://neithernor.blogspot.com/2006/03/mayor-of-niafunke.html" REL="nofollow">post about him</A> on via Negativa. It’s a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143057247730917712006-03-23T07:54:00.000+12:002006-03-23T07:54:00.000+12:00Pete-- This post made me think of your previous po...Pete-- This post made me think of your previous post about traveling, home, and death. When we look at those spiritless creatures in museums, their stillness is a mockery of their personal life forces. They are set in poses meant to please, but the poor animals are just frozen in some space and time, never permitted to become finally an appropriate dust. For the poor rock wrens, they live in the robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143052531973494822006-03-23T06:35:00.000+12:002006-03-23T06:35:00.000+12:00I've been hearing Ali Farka Toure recently on two ...I've been hearing Ali Farka Toure recently on two local (Seattle area) public radio stations which have what they call "world music" times. Did Toure die recently? Don't know why that sticks in my mind.<BR/>A book group friend from NZ sent me a toy weta. I think they look wonderful, but she told me I might think differently if one crawled across my counterpane first thing in the morning! <BR/>isabelitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175928587455507236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143019312120244372006-03-22T21:21:00.000+12:002006-03-22T21:21:00.000+12:00Hi again Pete. Just briefly to thank you for your ...Hi again Pete. Just briefly to thank you for your kind welcome and for posting the link. And also for the introduction to Denis Glover which I've just followed up .. haven't met him or his work before - will investigate. Thanks.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15022751588711849162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143003225543185222006-03-22T16:53:00.000+12:002006-03-22T16:53:00.000+12:00Adagio: Like most NZers, I've known some of Glover...Adagio: Like most NZers, I've known some of Glover's poems all my life (or so it seems). It's wonderful to see his words there, where so many people can encounter them — people who might otherwise never have found him. Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Patry: Welcome, and thanks for that generous comment. :^DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1143001093703336702006-03-22T16:18:00.000+12:002006-03-22T16:18:00.000+12:00It's difficult to match the power of your photogra...It's difficult to match the power of your photographs--but somehow your words manage to do so.<BR/><BR/>I'm grateful to have found you.Patry Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10961915797919017179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1142985835370938712006-03-22T12:03:00.000+12:002006-03-22T12:03:00.000+12:00I had never read Glover's poem. The imagery is wo...I had never read Glover's poem. The imagery is wonderful: ironing board harbours/iron tugs/shirts of the sea/pillowslips of freighters....how can one possibly look at these vessels now without remembering Glover's delicious imagination. Thankyou.Adagiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00633098196664852482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1142971395834732152006-03-22T08:03:00.000+12:002006-03-22T08:03:00.000+12:00Welcome, Mary. I like your response: that the pos...Welcome, Mary. I like your response: that the post packs a punch. Appropriate...<BR/><BR/>Initially I read the Glover poem and walked on. I hadn't gone far before it pulled me back and made me take out the camera.<BR/><BR/>Those are good questions you posed in <A HREF="http://abreathofair.blogspot.com/2006/03/moving-thoughts.html" REL="nofollow">your post about moving</A>. Incidentally, I'm Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-1142937889967979822006-03-21T22:44:00.000+12:002006-03-21T22:44:00.000+12:00Pete: Thanks for commenting at my place because it...Pete: Thanks for commenting at my place because it's enabled me to find yours and I'll be back. <BR/><BR/>I really like that first photo ...<BR/><BR/>And this post packs a punch. Chilling - and your last sentence says it all.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15022751588711849162noreply@blogger.com