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Re: There Was a Man of Double Deed
hi. thanks for your valuable thoughts. on a linear progression, it sounded to me like it's moving from an immigrant's culture of america, an idea, to the immigrant's view of US, a wary nation, and of course to the falling off at the edge of the world (flat after all!) -h
Posted to Poems by hemig on November 12, 2008
Happy Veterans Day, Bratsche.
I'm afraid my poem was never deliberately organized. The rhythm seemed to tell me to cut at the sixth line in this one...I tend towards the organic, I guess, when it comes to strophes (I hope I'm using that word correctly). I see them like paragraphs. I have absolutely know formal education in poetry. none whatsoever. Anything I know, I learned ...
Posted to Poems by catnapping on November 11, 2008
Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms
Hi Foobs, What you say may well be tied into the very viewpoint that Schultz seems to express: the Reform Jewish viewpoint, if not something more liberal still. (For that or for some other reason, he may well be something of an outsider to his own people's religious tradition. It would be interesting to cross-check his C.V. and find out.) Take a ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
Re: Wretched execution (right job, wrong tool)
Interesting explanation of what you think is the problem. Maybe in my case, the problem is that I write like I read and I read like I write. Either way, I get almost as puzzled as you at what we get on Tuesdays. Wretched execution, eh? Why then is the language so relatively elegant of itself? That's worth thinking about. It's as if the condemned ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008
Re: That's damn good you know?
Foobs:Well, I would break out down into three non-judgmental things: 1) We are both communicative writers. We value clarity. 2) A lot of people like rhyme and meter, and not all of them are jerks. 3) We both enjoy writing and, I think, it shows. So many writers give the impression that they tear words out of their hearts with blood and ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 23, 2008
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
Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry
Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008
Re: evaluating poems
MaryAnn:islandtime, I, too, abhor the phrase Tuesday tripe. What particularly bothers me are posts that fail to make a distinction between not liking something (perhaps because of a different belief system from that expressed in the poem or because of a preference for a different style of writing) and calling something tripe. There's nothing ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 15, 2007
By some measures, very. By others...?
martingreene:The poet heard on my computer's audio sounded very good, and it helped me confirm that he is a smart guy who wrote a good piece, not guaranteed, as we have seen, to be well received. I just listened to Prof. Skinner too. (I keep forgetting that my new cable access finally allows me to listen to the poets quickly and, if necessary, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2007
Re: Paul Breslin
MaryAnn: I'm sure we both can agree that Dr. Paul Breslin knows more about evaluating poetry than all of us put together. And yet, the last thing he said here before he left is that people judge the Tuesday poem too quickly and that they need to spend more time trying to understand what the poet was trying to do before judging the poem. Mary ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2007

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