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Re: tower of power
Paul_Breslin: ''is it really that much different than Garbo wanting to be left alone or Woolf's desire for a room of her own?'' Not so different at all! (And seeing it that way explains why the voice that calls her promises ''we can give you solitude''--as if it's understood that without some guarantee of solitude, there's no way she's going ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2008
Re: First Terning of the Winding Stare
When Shakespeare ended Sonnet 65 by writing: ''O none, unless this miracle have might / That in black ink my love may still shine bright,'' was he writing pap? Did the Klingons' greatest bard (that's a Star Trek in-joke) ever write pap (in the bad sense)? Someone once wrote that apparently the Bard needed only to open his mouth for poetry to drip ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
Re: Interiority, Performance, and Faith in John Donne and Others
MaryAnn: Paul, thanks very much for the brief overview of changes in religious poetry over the past several hundred years. Although I enjoy the religious poetry of all those whom you've mentioned, especially the hot dog, I've never looked at at all of them in the context you've presented. Just a comment of explanation -- since you were here ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008
Re: Wordsworth
It wouldn't surprise me if I learned that Wordsworth (about whom I know far, far too little, likewise of his poetry) had a temperament related to mine. ''Negative capability'' is something I have had to cultivate too, just to keep from letting all the questions I ask and can't answer drive me crazy. I don't think what I've long called ''holding ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008
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
Re: "Siren": Paul Breslin's powerful,panic-prone poem
Paul_Breslin:I just hope it's as good as you think it is, Ted. It is certainly meant to work in the way you describe. At last, ye Muses, an Honest Poet! :) If you read this...sorry that my reviews of your poem (in different places) have such a split personality. In one place I say ''Siren'' is what we should have around here more often; in ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008
Re: Paul Breslin's powerful, panic-prone poem
Hi Ted, I didn't think the poem ''powerful'' or ''panic-prone'' -- but then, I don't live by a fire station like PB does, and a siren (disconcerting as it is to me) doesn't make me think of my own past griefs (or anger, or guilt, or pain) or my future death. I simply don't have the common ground to either write as PB did about or to react as you ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 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
P.S.
Ah, I'd forgotten just how hard-nosed I'd been in my original reply to Foobs. Ouch. This must be what NoStar was referring to. Let's just say that as with many of the better Tuesday Poems, I seem to be double-minded as to my reaction to ''Siren''. Depending on when I'm reading and when I'm writing, sometimes I focus on its strengths and sometimes ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
Re: What I thought I was doing
Dear Mr. Breslin, When we say that most Tuesday Poets don't seem to know what they're doing, we really do suspect their competence. When you say you don't know what you're doing, it's not your competence that the wiser among us suspect -- it's just what you describe it as being, which ''rings true'' to me. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your whole ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008

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