Comments on: J’aime le “peer pressure”

By: Don Share

Don Share — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:16:37 +0000

Steve (who’s actually across the river from me now at the ALSC conference (see his acronymical post here) -
In the October 25th issue of The New York Review of Books, Poet Laureate of the US Charles Simic kicks of a review of Robert Creeley’s two-volume collected poems (which he doesn’t care for) with this quote from R.C.”–
“I loved Herrick. I loved the scale and deftness of his sounds. I loved, what little I knew of Campion…. I loved the so-called Jacobeans, I mean, really a kind of hip mournfulness I really thought was great”
[Creeley in conversation with Alan Riach, recorded at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealong, 7/26/1995, available Report this comment

By: Ange

Ange — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:03:31 +0000

Steve, did you find, doing this exercise, that the concrete and the abstract — and “feeling” vs. “thinking” — become less meaningful categories?
Just wondering if the distinctions are really that meaningful in poetry, either.
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By: Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:43:43 +0000

Hmm. I love the Herrick I’ve read but hate IKEA; love the George Eliot I’ve read but find the Honeycrisp too sweet. Does that mean I should read the rest of Herrick and Eliot, or have I read just enough and any more will risk finding stuff to dislike? This is tough.
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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:04:23 +0000

I forgot to say that half the time I’m alllergic to high end milk chocolate (because it contains hazelnut traces). Dark chocolate? White chocolate? Those I can do.
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By: Ange

Ange — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:54:49 +0000

Ah, the honeycrisp apple – it’s a revelation isn’t it?
But high end milk chocolate? Now truly we have hit upon the Barthesian “intimidation of the body.” I must suffer your incomprehensible dislike!
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