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Recording RecordingAuthor(s): Jim HallSource: The North American Review, Vol. 261, No. 3 (Fall, 1976), p. 55Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25117812 .
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The Manly Art of Poetry
JIM HALL
RECORDING RECORDING
I never met this fellow
before/he smiled so much
it made me dizzy/then before
he told me what he'd come to
talk about he asked if he
could record my voice our
conversation/that he liked to
go back over certain events
and listen between the lines
for words our bodies mumbled
or something of that sort/1
said flatly no/1 don't want
this moment to be anymore
sacred than it has to be/
but he said well if that's
the way you feel about it
but I don't plan to use it
against you or anything I
just like to re-examine
certain moments/it's like
photography/he kept smiling and he had very long clean
hair and he was so gentle
and at peace and correct/
and he didn't mind eye contact
so I felt like a bastard
refusing him his hobby/ and
I said O.K. go ahead turn it
on but I don't approve of this/
it stunts your memory/he turned
it on and we sat and watched it
go around for a minute/then
he asked me a question about
writing poetry
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW/FALL 7976 55
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