Mourning my Little Tragedies (c) 2002 Anna Montgomery 30X24 Oil on Canvas
Anfractuous Historiography (click here)
This is a spoken word piece so please listen to the MP3 (link above) but if you need the PDF it’s here: Anfractuous Historiography (An Experimental Ghazal)
Very nice, quite the treat. You do a great job with your readings. Great painting as well. Really nice work. thanks
I do appreciate that you listened to the recording. It’s been a long time so I thought I was overdue for a spoken word piece. Thank you for feedback
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I enjoyed listening to the reading. I read the pdf after, where I dictionaried a lot of words…:D I think you are writing about ways and behaviors that reveal desires, sometimes some behaviors render certain goals unreachable or spoils certain things.
Yes, they’re not words I spit out every day, though I enjoy the looks of horror when I do
. Ghazal’s sort of fascinate me, that blend of Sufi mysticism and unrequited love that make for some mercurial poetry. It means a lot to me we’re in NaPoWriMo together, can’t wait to read your latest.
i love this, loved hearing it, the music and the repetition, just fabulous. i will be listning to it again. and your painting is wonderful, the title is perfect.
Oh Kelly, how nice of you to make my day first thing in the morning, my smile’s going to fuel many not so exciting errands for work. Now I will proceed to tell you things you don’t really need to know since I’m happy. The painting was one of the few that I created while listening to music (specifically ‘Grieve’ by Peter Gabriel) and is a rumination on the myriad losses of my life. The title came to me first, rare in painting. After the first two drafts of the poem I realized that a Ghazal would allow me to delve into repetition, to emphasize the untouchable grief and confusion. As you know I am grieving and this was a helpful way to address my spiritual and interpersonal struggles. Anyway, thank you, both for this comment and your excellent example in participating in NaPoWriMo. You’re an inspiration.
nice…a very cool picture…and you have a wonderful reading voice easy to listen too…it is harder for me to tranlate the larger words on the reading without the hard copy in front of me but it is easy to get caught up in the flow of what you do with them…
Gosh, I just realized I hadn’t responded here, sorry about that. The PDF is connected so hopefully that will help. The painting is there as requested
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