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Lesbian eisgesis is more like it
That last line especially, Gretchen and NoStar, is not reminiscent of lesbian curiosity (with its potential for arousal), but of feeling ''un-woman-ed'' in the presence of a superior heterosexual specimen, just as a man can feel ''unmanned'' in a parallel presence of his own gender. I've been there and done that, as noted elsewhere. There is no ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
Well, NoStar, I guess when my parody gene's stuck in the ditch, all I have to do is read one of your limerical rewrites and it gets pushed back on the road. Stand by for a full-throttle HOTR parody! wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: "The Most Careless Girl in the Class . ." By Erica Ehrenberg
WOW. I like this poem!!!! I like it more than any Tuesday Poem I can remember in a long time. More in my Front Post to come...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: Sophie Cabot Black's "Biopsy" as a limerick
I haven't read ''Biopsy'' itself yet, but I agree: this is top-notch as a chain limerick, certainly the best I have ever seen you do. Perhaps ironically, it is driven not by your usual sense of parody, but of pathos -- even in your introduction to it. Kudos to you as well. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009
Re: No limerick for this week's Pinsky Pick.
Belatedly (and unsurprisingly) I applaud your choice. Myself, I wouldn't touch this poem with a ten-foot parody either. All the same, I think the first half is strangely incoherent as a poem (qua poem). It's the second half that has a stark clarity emerge, reach up from the deathbed and grab you by the collar to whisper its message. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 22, 2009
Re: These One-Word Titles Are Hard to Pun (A Sonnet)
Now you've done it...now I'm wondering how Foobs will react to all of this. :) By the way, Mr. Breslin, Foobs is at his absolute best when the Tuesday Poem is at its absolute worst. And I (the Other Surviving Infamous Parodist of the Fray, since NoStar shows up so seldom) don't have the heart to skewer ''Siren'' ... because, after all, it wails ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008
P.S.: See my other P.S. below...
...I'd forgotten just how double-minded my reviews sometimes are (more positive in one thread, more negative in another). wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
I've missed Mr. Breslin too...
Amen to the lot, NoStar. Plus: NoStar:Your civil acknowledgment of White Rabbit's criticism is an example for all who feel the lash of a bad review. You and Mr. Breslin ''ain't seen nuthin' yet'' if you think that was a bad review. If it were a bad review, then I would've set the text to ''Home on the Range'' and stampeded the thing off the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008