Comments on: The Ides of March: Soothsayer=Poet* http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: scott hightower http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3139 scott hightower Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:46:57 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3139 How great to have you here! Looking forward to what is to come! How great to have you here! Looking forward to what is to come!
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]]> By: dianamariedelgado http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3138 dianamariedelgado Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:47:55 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3138 Right on, Ada. Can't wait to read what you have to say. Your first post is great! Right on, Ada. Can’t wait to read what you have to say. Your first post is great!
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]]> By: adam http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3137 adam Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:50:06 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3137 I just hope we can all tell the difference between Brutus and the Soothsayer when they're not talking. I just hope we can all tell the difference between Brutus and the Soothsayer when they’re not talking.
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]]> By: Javier Huerta http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3136 Javier Huerta Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:29:31 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3136 I think a poet should be more like Shakespeare's Touchstone and/or Feste. Yes, the more fool I. Look forward to reading your posts. I think a poet should be more like Shakespeare’s Touchstone and/or Feste. Yes, the more fool I. Look forward to reading your posts.
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]]> By: Adam http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3135 Adam Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:14:46 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3135 I just hope we can all tell Brutus and the Soothsayer apart, especially when they're not speaking.... I just hope we can all tell Brutus and the Soothsayer apart, especially when they’re not speaking….
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]]> By: Nicole Callihan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3134 Nicole Callihan Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:48:49 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3134 Et tu, Ada? Et tu, Ada?
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]]> By: Sheryl http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3133 Sheryl Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:47:54 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3133 Yes. Welcome Ada! Yes. Welcome Ada!
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]]> By: Rigoberto http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3132 Rigoberto Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:29:13 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3132 How wonderful to see Ada representing out here on Harriet. Welcome, Ada! How wonderful to see Ada representing out here on Harriet. Welcome, Ada!
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]]> By: Ada Limon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3131 Ada Limon Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:26:10 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3131 Indeed, I would have been torn to bits by an angry mob had bad verses been cause to riot. Although we might deserve it a little if we walked around saying, “I am Ada the Poet,” or” Bill the Poet” or “Rich the Poet.” Right? Then, the stones might be warranted...if only to knock us off our own Caesar-like pedestals. Rich, thanks for the poem. And, it’s lovely to be here, thanks for the welcome. Indeed, I would have been torn to bits by an angry mob had bad verses been cause to riot. Although we might deserve it a little if we walked around saying, “I am Ada the Poet,” or” Bill the Poet” or “Rich the Poet.” Right? Then, the stones might be warranted…if only to knock us off our own Caesar-like pedestals.
Rich, thanks for the poem. And, it’s lovely to be here, thanks for the welcome.
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]]> By: Rich Villar http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3130 Rich Villar Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:07:20 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3130 ...and lucky for some of us Caesars and Cinnas, the rest of the world is not the United States, and they could care less about the New York Times. …and lucky for some of us Caesars and Cinnas, the rest of the world is not the United States, and they could care less about the New York Times.
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]]> By: Rich Villar http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3129 Rich Villar Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:41:48 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3129 La La Limon! Boy it's good to see you here! You're my soothsayer, and you say your sooths awfully well. Here's a sooth I'd like say to you. Forsooth! Sonnet for the #6 The subways are full of smoke and acrid mists today. In this Heat the haze is thick glass that turns everything upside down. Thor is banging on the third rail, his sparks shoot down the Newspaper birds flying in flocks in the dark. Vulcan's forge Bellowing, coughing gas, ozone and foul fumes travelling faster Than Mercury or Huracan or the express. Marijuana flavors The smoke, and incense burned by Afro-American Muslims. What Thoughtless God gave man drugs I wonder, when I see the old sign With the Ordinance which Prohibits Cigarette Smoking, but the new Generation smokes grass and only reads color video, and disobedient Prometheus is to blame for fire anyway. Down here, like at Styx, I am angry at the Gods, but at Hunt's Point a Latin lady gets on And I recognize Quetzalcoatl, beak and plumes, and the train elevates like a magic carpet over the Bronx to Pelham or Parnassus. --Jack Agüeros La La Limon! Boy it’s good to see you here! You’re my soothsayer, and you say your sooths awfully well.
Here’s a sooth I’d like say to you. Forsooth!
Sonnet for the #6
The subways are full of smoke and acrid mists today. In this
Heat the haze is thick glass that turns everything upside down.
Thor is banging on the third rail, his sparks shoot down the
Newspaper birds flying in flocks in the dark. Vulcan’s forge
Bellowing, coughing gas, ozone and foul fumes travelling faster
Than Mercury or Huracan or the express. Marijuana flavors
The smoke, and incense burned by Afro-American Muslims. What
Thoughtless God gave man drugs I wonder, when I see the old sign
With the Ordinance which Prohibits Cigarette Smoking, but the new
Generation smokes grass and only reads color video, and disobedient
Prometheus is to blame for fire anyway. Down here, like at Styx,
I am angry at the Gods, but at Hunt’s Point a Latin lady gets on
And I recognize Quetzalcoatl, beak and plumes, and the train elevates
like a magic carpet over the Bronx to Pelham or Parnassus.
–Jack Agüeros
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]]> By: bill knott http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3128 bill knott Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:37 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3128 p.s. luckily for most of us Cinnas, neither Caesar nor Citizen bothers to notice our bad verses ... getting beaten up in the streets or the New York Times Book Review— I could recover from the former but not the latter . . . p.s.
luckily for most of us Cinnas,
neither Caesar nor Citizen
bothers to notice our bad verses …
getting beaten up in the streets or
the New York Times Book Review—
I could recover from the former but
not the latter . . .
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]]> By: bill knott http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3127 bill knott Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:18:26 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3127 you're forgetting Act 3 Scene 3: CINNA THE POET Truly, my name is Cinna. First Citizen Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. CINNA THE POET I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. Fourth Citizen Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses. CINNA THE POET I am not Cinna the conspirator. Fourth Citizen It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going. Third Citizen Tear him, tear him! * Better for the poet to be brushed aside by Caesar than torn for his bad verses. If the citizens only knew what we got up to our pages, how few of us would escape their wrath! * you’re forgetting Act 3 Scene 3:
CINNA THE POET
Truly, my name is Cinna.
First Citizen
Tear him to pieces; he’s a conspirator.
CINNA THE POET
I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
CINNA THE POET
I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Fourth Citizen
It is no matter, his name’s Cinna; pluck but his
name out of his heart, and turn him going.
Third Citizen
Tear him, tear him!
*
Better for the poet to be brushed aside by Caesar than torn for his bad verses.
If the citizens only knew what we got up to our pages, how few of us would escape
their wrath!
*
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]]> By: Didi http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/the-ides-of-march-soothsayerpoet/#comment-3126 Didi Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:13:30 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=756#comment-3126 I think I am your soothsayer -- just take a look at all the alerts I have been emailing you about the May issue. Didi I think I am your soothsayer — just take a look at all the alerts I have been emailing you about the May issue.
Didi
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