A wonderful example. In more colloquial usage we have “what’s up your sleeve” to “roll up one’s sleeve” for medical reasons. I like to think of it in motion rather than as a static image.
I bought Ondaatje’s ‘The Distance of a Shout’ this afternoon. I suspect the lines “those wounds like sleeve openings/that left unspoken shadows” probably have something to add to your explanation.
Thanks, Sheila. I had never used the sleeve metaphor before, but I think it works in the case of even the title “river revery” where the sound and sight of the phrase slips into itself, as if a current of vowels and consonants were flowing and getting sleeved in concealment as well as revelation. Not sure if that helps.
You capture the enantiodromia I love, "running toward the opposite": the standing wave of the river's fast current, a hydraulic jump! And sleeve just like sleep "knits up the ravelled sleave of care":)
Another wonderfully engaged and immersed exploration of poetry.
I’m curious about the use of “sleeve” and “sleeved” in the piece. One has the sense immediately of something covering or slipping over something else, but I haven’t heard it elsewhere. Google is no help. Can anyone expand on this elusive technique?
Michael Greenstein writes the most attentive, carefully observed review of RIVER REVERY. He catches every nuance of language. And for further interpretation, RIVER REVERY as poetry films, see https://riverrevery.ca/ !
Antlering, here we go a'antlering:)
A wonderful example. In more colloquial usage we have “what’s up your sleeve” to “roll up one’s sleeve” for medical reasons. I like to think of it in motion rather than as a static image.
It does. Thank you.
I bought Ondaatje’s ‘The Distance of a Shout’ this afternoon. I suspect the lines “those wounds like sleeve openings/that left unspoken shadows” probably have something to add to your explanation.
Thanks, Sheila. I had never used the sleeve metaphor before, but I think it works in the case of even the title “river revery” where the sound and sight of the phrase slips into itself, as if a current of vowels and consonants were flowing and getting sleeved in concealment as well as revelation. Not sure if that helps.
You capture the enantiodromia I love, "running toward the opposite": the standing wave of the river's fast current, a hydraulic jump! And sleeve just like sleep "knits up the ravelled sleave of care":)
Another wonderfully engaged and immersed exploration of poetry.
I’m curious about the use of “sleeve” and “sleeved” in the piece. One has the sense immediately of something covering or slipping over something else, but I haven’t heard it elsewhere. Google is no help. Can anyone expand on this elusive technique?
Here I am reading “River Revery”, 13:00-15:45 in “Poet Laureate Presents: River of Words”, Words Festival, Museum London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpUgZLi4f4s&t=11s.
Michael Greenstein writes the most attentive, carefully observed review of RIVER REVERY. He catches every nuance of language. And for further interpretation, RIVER REVERY as poetry films, see https://riverrevery.ca/ !