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And thanks for sticking to your guns...
...you, richard, Angel, waltz, and everyone else who is willing to call a spade a spade. My, my, but we've had a lively conversation this week because of that. Maybe there's hope for this neck of the Fray yet. As you'll see in my comment to mg, now that I've heard Prof. Skinner read his poem (or rather, fairly decent prose palmed off as poetry), ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2007
Good prose reading, but "I thought this was poetry..."
waltz n capsize:maybe the poem has male qualities. seems like some of you fellows follow the thinking like a soliloquy-- as you had written. but to me, it reads like missed opportunities. Hi waltz, Wow, sorry about that ''thing''. Glad you're better now. Strangely enough, though there is much that is ''male'' about the poem, I'm reminded in ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 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
This is one thing my thinking isn't...
...as I hope I've made abundantly clear with regard to this poem. I wonder if you are not setting up a straw man. Maybe not, But the emotional language of some Poems Fraysters notwithstanding, the general consensus seems to be that what we're sent on Tuesdays usually is neither ''great'' nor ''merde'' (black or white), but simply mediocre (gray) ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 14, 2007
More aptly, it aims for the moon and hits the neighbor's dog
Hi MaryAnn, This discussion (here and elsewhere) is rapidly developing into something that requires more time and thought than I am able to give it. And that's too bad, because I'm interested in literally anything and everything that helps me understand better how the world works. But ''here goes nothing...'' My screwball quip in the title is ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 14, 2007
Re: Ah, a teacher who shouldn't be one...
Good morning mg, Thanks for the digression, and for the digression within the digression; it explains much about why you appreciate the poem. Of course, for your Chase password you could've used the idea (had you only known) of a creative writer I know: the Latin version of an English quip by one of his characters, ''I think therefore I am ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 13, 2007
We do need positive comments...
...and no one here is better qualified to make them than islandtime. Of course, IMO islandtime can also out-poet the authors of most of Pinsky's Picks with her eyes shut. I'm kind of afraid she'll be like the punchline in the joke about the pessimist child and the optimist child, looking at the same stable. Our honorable islandtime is the sort ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 13, 2007
MA/Angel: Skinner is a "pro"; we deserve better from him
Angel: Well said, man of few words. It is incumbent upon lovers of poetry to call it as we see it. Too many incompetents are published these days simply because they have ''credentials'' -- and if we who see that the Emperor is stark naked do not cry out, who shall defend the name of poetry? Angel Even if it's true of some of us -- like ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 13, 2007
Jeffrey Skinner's Working? on the Railroad (as a limerick)
Goofing off is more like it, but then railroad unions created featherbedding. This isn't really a poem, just prose with oddly arranged spacing. It is written well enough to hold my attention, but I come here for poetry. Still I will not slack off on my self appointed mission: To demonstrate that any poem submitted by Pinsky can be improved ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 12, 2007