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  • White_Rabbit weighs in on Culturebox...

    MaryAnn:this sharp, witty and instructive Culturebox article by Robert Pinsky -- http://www.slate.com/id/2189318/ You're joking, right? Sharp? Witty? Instructive? How about inconsistent, evasive, and ultimately needlessly insulting? If that last bit was meant to be witty, then it was in exceedingly poor taste. Mr. Pinsky reminds me of a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 18, 2008

  • Y'all might want to rethink that schedule...

    (Johanan Rakkav is filling the chair of the night shift over at the Triumvirate, and thinks this is worth his assessment as a theologian...wr) The projection of (fill in the blank) billion years is based on the assumption that the Designer won't intervene first. He will -- and a whole lot sooner than that. One result is that we will have ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 12, 2008

  • ()() "Acorns" (aka "Fall on the Tin")

    Well, I have to hand it to this one: its form definitely follows its function. A decent poem, a pleasant little diversion, a better-than-usual message for Tuesdays...and a wonderful target for my usual schtick. (Parodist sings solo:) An oak tree's at warWith the house right next door,Where a poet just happens to live.Please pardon my guts:All ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 4, 2008

  • Re: But we DO know from her other poems

    denny:that Jill McDonough is a writer who concentrates on ''social causes'' - so it seems plausable. However, as a poem, it has much to be desired. d;-) Yes, I had underplayed that background info, not being sure how to weigh it. I agree, like most of the (say it with me) Tuesday Tripe, it fails to speak for itself very well.(*) wr ()() (*) ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 23, 2007

  • Re: 2 good Philip Levine poems w/o any figurative language

    Angel:I didn't say I didn't like it -- I said it wasn't poetry to me. As prose, I like it very much. I have never cared about being in the ''minority'' in my life, MaryAnn. I'm a nonconformist and always have been. The ''minority'' is my comfort zone. Angel I'll take uniqueness over nonconformity as a goal any day; it keeps one in the ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 18, 2007

  • moo moo (cowspeak for "P.S.")

    For me to be able to say that much this early in the morning, before I've had my ''morning caffeine injection'', is a minor miracle. So I hope it was suitable. Thanks, MaryAnn. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 18, 2007

  • Re: Waltz/MaryAnn...

    My take is that Mr. Schultz knows exactly what he is doing here, and does it well. This poem is a perfect illustration of why I take the following as one of my objective axioms in judging poetry: form follows function in effective poetry. Here, form follows function to a ''T'' -- what he says and how he says it fit hand in glove. This is why my ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 16, 2007

  • Re: "Failure" by Philip Schultz

    I much appreciate this review, MaryAnn. From these examples and the Tuesday Poem, at any rate, Philip Schultz is someone who deals with the tragicomedy -- mostly the tragedy part -- of the human condition, and in particular as it affects him and his family. It seems he is striving in these poems to come to terms with many things, not least of ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 16, 2007

  • Re: A Tuesday poem by Paul Breslin

    Now there's a Tuesday Poet who knows what he is doing. The subject is simple, and its treatment is unpretentious. And yet, the poem manages to leave me with a sense of mystery and wonder at the end. How? By its rhythm, its euphony, its respect for normal grammar and syntax, and its choice of words that somehow seem to imply more than they say. And ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 15, 2007

  • For MaryAnn et al.

    Greetings! Welcome to The Insomnia Special...in which I'll address some thoughts and issues in random order. First: when all is said and done, I must agree that the last thing we need around here is a ''mockery fest'', let alone an ongoing feature of that sort. On the one hand, sheer spontaneity is what makes our parodists' work what it is. On ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 15, 2007
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