Comments on: All the Long Gone Darlings http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/ online literary magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ivy http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1173 Tue, 22 May 2007 03:40:23 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1173 Thank you, Teju. I was recently pondering the significance of names when I reviewed ‘The Name Poems’, a chapbook by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright:

“A name serves to identify and also, to mark out the space of the person it represents. Notably, the chapbook’s cover image is composed of initials, presented as cut out letters in the style of a ransom note. The initials represent the dedicatees, who all have a sonnet or two dedicated to them. Perhaps, in a way, a name also holds something to ransom, by withholding the person in exchange for the name, so that before one meets her, the name has created several expectations of the person behind the name.” Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ho4g3

And thank you, beth. ‘Sisters’ is part of the next manuscript I’m working on, for which I also need to draw on a lot of strength to write.

]]> By: beth http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1172 Sun, 20 May 2007 19:59:54 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1172 I was very touched by this prose piece, Ivy, and also by both of your new poems linked here. They’re all moving expressions of strength in the face of things that could easily defeat us as women, as humans.

]]> By: Teju http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1171 Sat, 19 May 2007 22:26:27 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/all-the-long-gone-darlings/#comment-1171 I find this so beautiful. Names mean so much.

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