Re: JDS The Poet
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:34:51 +1100
citycabn wrote:
> Back to JDS: A thought: how many people believe the "loose-leaf
notebook
> inhabited by a hundred and eighty-four short poems" (written by Seymour
> during the last three years of his life) exists? Or, to put it more
> plainly, do you think JDS, in addition to more unpublished Glass Stories,
> *also* has been penning poems over these forty years, perhaps the poems
of
> Seymour Glass?
>
> I vote yes.
Apparently Salinger's been writing haikus and other Eastern poetry forms
since before he even wrote Catcher, but considered them too `way out' for a
1950s audience to appreciate through publication. It's hard to say whether
this continues (and it's a shame because today's audience would have loved
to read his poems) but taking the metatextuality of the Glass stories as an
exemplar, it's probably likely, although they're probably going to be
`Seymours' poems. Maybe that's what JDS has been doing all these years.
Assembling Seymour's 184 poem cannon. Maybe it's his particular version of
the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Camille
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