[Vwoolf] Poetry about Virginia Woolf
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Wed Mar 12 08:43:41 EDT 2014
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no serious poem about Virginia Woolf fails to mention her suicide: see (1). However, I can’t decide whether I don’t prefer (2) to (1) as *poetry*.
Stuart
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(1)
After reading ‘The Waves’
We will never be
afraid of Virginia Woolf with those
huge light wells of eyes, that face
as dreamily long as a lonely
holiday. How on earth so far from
heaven could she have imagined
such monologues of naked poetry?
To sustain a page’s almost perfect
symmetry of sight and sound must
have cost her many hours’ unease.
Those taut threads of vocal being
must have snapped loose from her
spinning mind and the bobbin of
her insight spun dizzily—but where
could we find a knot in that
weaving? What pulled all the
threads loose a decade later
and walked her into the river’s arms
until it clasped its hands over her
singing head, drowning even her lake-
wide eyes in a waterfall of words?
BRUCE BEAVER
(“Sydney Morning Herald”, 29 June 1974, p. 15)
(2)
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