tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post1735558452922984740..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: Evening in TangierKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-64818652085026297922010-09-14T21:01:51.806+01:002010-09-14T21:01:51.806+01:00Strangely, I only wrote these lines a few days ago...Strangely, I only wrote these lines a few days ago after reading a novel called "Look and move"on by Mrabet, a Bowles translation, though I have been to Tangier a couple of times prior to reading this novel.<br />These lines were written in the mood of that novel. Bowles creates an atmosphere of sparseness, an economy of expression but the melancholy is considerable.<br /><br />If you want to see "funeral" pyres along the shore, go to Tangier! However, these lines are entirely my own and were composed in my head whilst in a cafe called Cafe Roman. I typed them after getting back.<br />Are you well?Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-56459618413409912252010-09-14T18:56:28.635+01:002010-09-14T18:56:28.635+01:00i like this more than i can say - one of the most ...i like this more than i can say - one of the most touching poems i've read this year - a kind of dark violence throbbing under a veil of sweet yearning, honesty of heart and eye (i think Tangier will forever be like this for me, unless i will travel there one day, or perhaps even then) - and possibly despair...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com