tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post6842132540657348595..comments2023-10-29T07:54:36.000+00:00Comments on georgiasam: Miller Lite Sucksputhwuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-16816407066806180652011-02-22T16:15:45.817+00:002011-02-22T16:15:45.817+00:00So, recently been in America at the AWP, feeling m...So, recently been in America at the AWP, feeling mighty pleased with the interest your person and sparling, captivating academic self, sought and created whilst meeting several of your hitherto, unticked-off-the-list big fish in AmPo's 10,000 strong innner coterie of professional poets in the inner sanctum, each, like you, mo chara, unique and with an authentic tradition pon which the titans dangle your intellectual treat and offers, this is moi, look, look aunty Rae, Dave and I am dead hip in England, one's persona is out and dangerously alive in print, doing demolition jobs, capable of the Hull drop Larkin mastered in his letters and several poems that blow the top of yer effin head off aunty Rae, baby..<br /><br />You sound incredibly pleased with yourself, again, you exciting mandarin of all things necessary in certain circles and square joints where the lesser captivating plodders knowing not the route from foclo to ollamh, oh Foundation Poetry Writer Programme America, c'mon on & sing, sing of the avant madness, the meaningless, head-shakingly baffling psycho-babble boxed and presented as necessary because wooden clowns want it thus, oh David my professional lover of language in all its many myriad forms, splitting infifity with the po-biz trinity, Bernstein Armantrout and Silly Mon..CoirĂ FilĂochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-28695789544538324942011-02-21T23:15:15.958+00:002011-02-21T23:15:15.958+00:00Yes, that line is marvelous! I was struck by it th...Yes, that line is marvelous! I was struck by it the first time I read the poem (or the last time I recall reading it). And the rhythm of the poem is perfect.Mark Granierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-67128817784761603372011-02-21T19:41:54.034+00:002011-02-21T19:41:54.034+00:00Ha! The only thing is, yes, academic critics do si...Ha! The only thing is, yes, academic critics <i>do</i> sit around on stages talking about being academic critics. Over here, at least.Ailbhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09332041587435888251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-11494221456033623382011-02-21T15:57:27.106+00:002011-02-21T15:57:27.106+00:00Yes, that strikes me too. There is a part of me th...Yes, that strikes me too. There is a part of me that grew up with a conscious avoidance of too many 'th's near each other but one can have too much euphony, and this has an obstinate insistence that's suitable.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-91938143373780398882011-02-21T00:22:17.224+00:002011-02-21T00:22:17.224+00:00Hello David,
A very interesting post - poor Tony ...Hello David,<br /><br />A very interesting post - poor Tony Hoagland. His poems are embarassing, but his crit can be quite accurate, if earnestish.<br /><br />But PLEEAASE put me out of my misery - you indicate that you bought a book by Susan Howe - why? why? why?<br /><br />et tu? and all that.<br /><br />ElizabethElizabeth Campbellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-91549719853164253452011-02-20T22:18:02.610+00:002011-02-20T22:18:02.610+00:00I am particularly fond of the line 'that they ...I am particularly fond of the line 'that they are there!', as a model of patient, respectful looking -- not muscling in, not saying 'there for me', merely letting them be. <br /><br />Online text of the poem here:<br /><br />http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=18652puthwuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-42600792890412002192011-02-20T21:58:29.230+00:002011-02-20T21:58:29.230+00:00re: Oppen. Maybe just the word 'strange' i...re: Oppen. Maybe just the word 'strange' in line 10...?George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-47655476259399463572011-02-20T19:36:46.645+00:002011-02-20T19:36:46.645+00:00Oppen's Psalm is indeed beautiful.Oppen's Psalm is indeed beautiful.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.com