tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post110926419683551503..comments2023-10-07T08:52:16.715-07:00Comments on The Virtual World: Breaking the GlassPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109464431177512802005-02-26T16:33:00.000-08:002005-02-26T16:33:00.000-08:00Funny you should mention the Karr essay. It's inte...Funny you should mention the Karr essay. It's interesting and impassioned, but I feel that Karr chooses the wrong scapegoats. First of all, Merrill and Rosanna Warren aren't exactly the first names one associates with the New Formalism, and second, I'd think the New Formalism is the last movement that would be accused of obscurity (a charge laid against Merrill and Warren). Then again, I first Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109442206076480402005-02-26T10:23:00.000-08:002005-02-26T10:23:00.000-08:00Suzanne: your secret is safe with me.
Barbara: Ye...Suzanne: your secret is safe with me.<br /><br />Barbara: Yes, Eliot is hot. But did you see him in Oz? My oh my!<br /><br />Alison: I agree with your painter friend's idea of "decoration." There is oftern much to much decoration in poetry. (In fact, a wonderful essay on this topic in Pushcart a few years ago, by Mary Karr(?): "Against Decoration."Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109403285757648842005-02-25T23:34:00.000-08:002005-02-25T23:34:00.000-08:002 things:
(1) i like that -- "broken glass." i'd...2 things: <br /><br />(1) i like that -- "broken glass." i'd feel complimented if someone said that about my poems.<br /><br />(2) i, too, think eliot on SVU is totally hot. i don't know what it is about him :-P<br /><br />--<A HREF="http://bjanepr.blog-city.com" REL="nofollow">barbara</A>bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109371031185715502005-02-25T14:37:00.000-08:002005-02-25T14:37:00.000-08:00Peter--
I had a friend who was an artist in colle...Peter--<br /><br />I had a friend who was an artist in college, and he said that the way he could tell he was finished with a painting was because he started to feel that he was decorating the canvass rather than painting it. I always thought that was a wise thing to say. No if only I were wise enough to apply it to writing poetry!Alison Pelegrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16732917146342410246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109370080881223042005-02-25T14:21:00.000-08:002005-02-25T14:21:00.000-08:00Peter,
I think Eliot on SVU is totally HOT. Yummy,...Peter,<br />I think Eliot on SVU is totally HOT. Yummy, yum, yummmmm. *lol* (Don't repeat that as I am a married woman and all. ;-))Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16623018763486643999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109356427295776002005-02-25T10:33:00.000-08:002005-02-25T10:33:00.000-08:00My method's never to take on a "OK, I'm going to f...My method's never to take on a "OK, I'm going to finish this poem if it kills me" mentality. That kills *it*. I just write, write, and write when I'm feeling things coming, then hunker down through the arduous, embarassing, thrilling task of seeing what the hell it was I wrote the few days before. I take the best bits, rewrite em, riff on em, and the process repeats. Eventually this'll Tara & Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201293579529735100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109281366073787202005-02-24T13:42:00.000-08:002005-02-24T13:42:00.000-08:00Suzanne: that is so funny! "Step away from the po...Suzanne: that is so funny! "Step away from the poem, mister, and nobody get's hurt. Let's not be a hero now . . . ." Very film noir. Very CSI. (or would it be SVU?)Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109280228274450862005-02-24T13:23:00.000-08:002005-02-24T13:23:00.000-08:00Suzanne, That cracks me up because it so like wha...Suzanne, That cracks me up because it so like what I sometimes have to say about lots of things.C. Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17270640200393742125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1109279370040726422005-02-24T13:09:00.000-08:002005-02-24T13:09:00.000-08:00I have had a serious perfectionist problems in the...I have had a serious perfectionist problems in the past--it's shut my process down for years at a time. As for revising, I've learned to listen to the voice that says, "Put the pen down and <I>step away</I> from the poem. That's it, nice and easy lady."<br /><br />:-)Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16623018763486643999noreply@blogger.com