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Question for Paul B....Re: Barbs from the boss
hello Paul, As someone who doesn't care for either Gluck or Logan's work, I'll pass on commenting here except to say that Logan does come across in his criticism as quite mean-spirited. I haven't rread enough of his own poetry to answer your question knowledgeably, but what I have read, I didn't particularly admire. Now to my question for you: ...
Posted to Poems by Contempo on June 12, 2009
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
Also, consider the context...
...Ile de France (in French) doesn't rhyme with ''pants'' and ''glance'', unless one really goes Nash-y and spells the last two words ''pahnts'' and ''glahnce''. Yes, I thought of the obvious possibility. I avoided it precisely because it's so obvious...and so often done before. Waiting for Eduoard,wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2008
Re: A "cheesy" attempt
Paul_Breslin: How can you rhyme ''pants'' and ''glance''And yet pass up the rhyme on ''France''? The reason's very simple, man.Some things I do...because I can. :) wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2008
Re: Interiority, Performance, and Faith in John Donne and Others
Dear Mr. Breslin, Wow, what a ride. This only goes to show what industrial-strength ignorance (mine) of a poet and of literary history can do in a pinch. Thanks for the clarification (especially on Donne). As Lord Keynes said, ''When the facts change, I change my mind. How about you?'' wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 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

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