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Re: Frozen
Yes, your line breaks make work for a stanza, but then it just seems stilted. But: It’s one of those nights When one might say Gee, it’s good to Be ...
Dec 22, 2007 -
Re: Blood Child- Prologue
Hullo young Newbie, you intrigue me. There is some definite promise in your writing, dying to see what this place does to you. The cold wind moaned as it whipped ...
Dec 22, 2007 -
Re: The Lindsay
This is a post modernist masterpiece. Its deconstruction of literary artifice is seamless, its evisceration of the poetic establishment, quite chillingly heartbreaking. While these masterful subversio
Dec 21, 2007 -
Re: Danse Macabre
One of my favourites from Saint-Saëns. There is a lot you could do with this. Ayra corrected most of the little things, I'd just add to it with this: The ...
Dec 6, 2007 -
Re: My Darling
The prodigious gadi, how wickedly you enthral us. Your tone recalled unto a salacious Mrs Woolf, a coy Mr Wilde, Dorothy Parker's short stories, the Saki of "Baker's Dozen", even ...
Dec 6, 2007 -
Re: Lady, Leave Your Chaos At Home
This is not robbed of sense, I like your concept, I like your specific material things with your abstract and emotional objects. That's the central idea I got from this, ...
Dec 1, 2007 -
Re: for the birds who went south last winter
Bah, still cannot hear your recording of it, so I can but comment upon the content. I am hoarding as much light as possible before the days get too short ...
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 28, 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: [deleted]
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: 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: 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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
