http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/02/wednesday-shout-out-23/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:12:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/02/wednesday-shout-out-23/#comment-2804 Trucker Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:48:36 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=704#comment-2804 I read "Cul-de-sac Linguistics" as in the end, a love song to a complicated world, and a celebration of the language we use to both denigrate and praise what we do and don't understand. The whole book is an equally layered and demanding knock-out. I read “Cul-de-sac Linguistics” as in the end, a love song to a complicated world, and a celebration of the language we use to both denigrate and praise what we do and don’t understand. The whole book is an equally layered and demanding knock-out.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/02/wednesday-shout-out-23/#comment-2803 Jordan Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:05:51 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=704#comment-2803 Hmm, I read "<a href="http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/summer06/Bradfield.html" rel="nofollow">Cul-de-sac</a>" differently - sounded to me as though the speaker worried for a second the taunts were directed at her, then decided otherwise, revelling in a little (flarfy?) obscenity of her own. In any case - great book, good on you for getting the word out first. Hmm, I read “Cul-de-sac” differently – sounded to me as though the speaker worried for a second the taunts were directed at her, then decided otherwise, revelling in a little (flarfy?) obscenity of her own. In any case – great book, good on you for getting the word out first.

]]>