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Re: cummings to grip
Did you just withdraw your post? I am amused.
Nov 29, 2007 -
Re: cummings to grip
**laughs** I knew I'd like you. I am sorry, I'm provocative and contrary by nature, and I only attack those who can take it, an opinion that melts when challenged ...
Nov 29, 2007 -
Re: Navel-gazing
Navel-gazing? Come on, use the technical term, omphaloskepsis. It's more fun.
Nov 29, 2007 -
Re: cummings to grip
So I get your frustration at bad critics, and aside from your pretty heavy grave robbing of ee cummings, that's what this work seems to me, a tirade against criticism. ...
Nov 29, 2007 -
Re: the year of the fire
Gee whiz, that's a creative spelling of woke, it really got my attention. Okay, it's been established this needs to be longer, and you have a lot of editing before ...
Nov 25, 2007 -
Re: Things Are Looking Up
Enigmatic, dense but no impenetrable. Elegant, I love your sense of space. Hinting at an epic grandeur. This is a labyrinth of chimera. low on this high infinity For some ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: Lobsters are Red
He likes when she is flushed from the shower her vermilion veins vermicular peel her proud pallor particular her wet hair knotted whiskery eels, and her sour peppered white-sauce musk ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: Mice and Men Have Second Tries
Upon first reading, I thought this is a Christmas card. Sweet, mainly visual, but a little too flat and papery to devour. But really then that's what this poem is ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: Giving Thanks
Oh but Via, you can't make too much of the violence of the vegies, otherwise you'd lose the point that nobody makes much of the violence of the vegies. Actually ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: splenda (revision posted 17th Nov 07)
Oh now since when is that a criticism, 'it's about nothing', life is about nothing. Poetry that are exercises in observation are just as valid as conceptual works, as observational ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: Giving Thanks
Not entirely without pith. I like your first stanza's initial violence and then somewhat satirically saccharine analogies. Complex, and yet mundane, Americana and eviscerating the empty American dream
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: The Accused
Oh yeah, just one ore thing, why did you call it "The Accused" and not "The Condemned"?
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: The Accused
Few brief things. Pavel Ippolitovich disliked his shackles, he disliked that, upon walking into the cart, he had stepped into animal droppings, and he especially disliked that he was going ...
Nov 22, 2007 -
Re: Leave Your Message at the Tone
This is so deliciously frenetic. Now, I will notice around here there tends to be an anti-modernist/post modernist sentiment, and I'll admit terrible things have been done with stream of ...
Nov 20, 2007 -
Re: Encounter between the Farmer and his Swine
Welcome, welcome. This really sucked me in. I smell John Steinbeck, DH Lawrence, Annie Proux, Joanne Harris, a little George Orwell, perhaps, along with your allusion to "Charlotte's Web", your ...
Oct 25, 2007
