Alex,
What's strange about the Connemara Pooka is that it's out of place in the
otherwise rather Ovidian (to resort to shorthand) mythic types. The Pooka is
a "stray" not only because it comes from the British Isles/Ireland and
we're in the USA: an affable sprite ready to perch on a wall and have a
chat, or a mischievous-tending-towards-nasty sprite, the homely Pooka is
*absurd* in the midst of the _terribilita'_ of these "moonmad" and
"ecstatic" types engaged in acts of "white electric" beauty:
blind birds singing
in glass fields
whitebone drones mating in air
among hullucinary moons
a masked bird fishing
in a golden stream
an ibis feeding
'on its own breast'
Tim Romano
Alex Schmitz wrote:
> the Ferlinghetti of "Coney" seems (other than EP) as FAR AWAY from
> mythography as possible - I mean established mythology vs/ mythology as
poetic
> invention & so forth.