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Addendum: In Defense of Poetry
This thread might be worth reviewing... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2009
Mr. Pinsky: a few questions, please...
Dear Mr. Pinsky, Welcome to Poems Fray...which hasn't been the most sedate of places of late, explaining in part why I haven't been on it (the other part has been insane busy-ness). I hope you have the time to answer some questions I've been longing to ask you for a long time. I don't know how much you've read the Fraysters' comments in the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2009
Re: Another Pepsi challenge
MaryAnn: We've faced such Self-Important Poems and their Self-Important Authors all too often here on Poems Fray, much more so in the past than currently, but all too frequently when Mr. Pinsky has put up. Rabbit, a few weeks ago when Robert Pinsky presented his monthly classic poem, he was available to all posters for, I think, four whole ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 23, 2009
Re: "the part of me that wasn't breathing."
But if so, shouldn't that be ''the part of me that hadn't been breathing''? wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 22, 2009
A kosher Chinese restaurant...?
What, no reaction to my HOTR parody, even from you? (Maybe that art form has played out around here.) I would love to find a kosher Chinese restaurant (or at least one that matched the biblical dietary laws of clean and unclean, holy and common: not precisely the same thing). I'd take up the culinary arts just so I could open and run one. wr ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
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: "The Most Careless Girl in the Class . ." By Erica Ehrenberg
GretchenRyan: Men ! Some young girl acts the tart and you get all atwitter. (...) Oh do hush, Gretchen. :) (Hope that doesn't sound too harsh. I visited London at the end of May for the first time, and am something of an Anglophile in other ways, so know just a tad of the dialect...just not the relative emotive force of some of the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
So do I...
I'm getting a little surprised at the reactions to this poem. There's nothing commonplace or ''prosy'' about it. It is narrative poetry. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
This is narrative poetry, not narrative prose...
A great deal is lost, actually -- for once, in such a Tuesday Poem -- by presenting it in a ''prose'' format. This poem has something fundamental in common with biblical Hebrew ''prose'', which many biblical scholars (including many of the author's fellow Jews) realize is a misleading term. Very little in Hebrew Scripture is not poetry, however ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
"Oh, oh, what a girl..." (HOTR parody)
I guess that all I have to do is read one of NoStar's parody limericks and my own parody gene gets pushed out of the ditch and onto the road. This won't be one of my best, I'm sure, but I have to try...full throttle, then... wr ()() (Parodist:) She kicked off restraintsAnd the patience of saintsLike a branch that she struck from her face.She ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009

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