Comments on: $$$

By: Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:07:47 +0000

Hi Joseph,
Walking home yesterday, I felt a little whorish for introducing humor into a post about mass murder, and I mean real murders, not just murder of values.

By: Joseph Hutchison

Joseph Hutchison — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:04:56 +0000

Thanks to Lihn Dinh for bringing irruptions of reality to Harriet. The original spin (in the initial graphic) is from Henry James and his sly portrayal of the seductions of wealth in The Golden Bowl. And isn’t Stevens in many ways a natural heir to James? Observing himself fastidiously observing a rather narrow slice of the world while the larger world crumbles around him…. Money may be a kind of poetry, but it can also be a kind of murder: a means of murdering real value.
And as for the mysterious students at Evergreen State College—why do I suddenly feel like the Tristero are alive and well?

By: Don Share

Don Share — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:21:48 +0000

Ah, but you just missed Poem in Your Pocket Day!!

By: Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:34:53 +0000

Hi Don,
I wouldn’t mind having a few more poems in my pocket!

By: Don Share

Don Share — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:22:58 +0000

Nice spin on Wallace Stevens’s “Money is a kind of poetry.”