Comments on: LEAN DOWN YOUR HEART TO HEAR or AL QUE QUIERE (upside down exclamation mark)

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:49:26 +0000

Tori said, “Sugar, give me sugar.” The cake said, “Eat me.” I say, “It’s hot and warms my pushaw.”
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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:39:11 +0000

Joseph, you have no idea how hard I’ve tried to “calm” myself. I’ve gone cold turkey and everything. I mean, did you not hear about the “emotional/intellectual/andyes,sexual threesome”??? Now about those pants…
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By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:26:43 +0000

Hi Olena,
Could you say more about this: “i wanted more of the good prose writer’s realistic direct glance”? I’m interested in this impulse and how it might desire to exist inside and outside of poetry. It reminds me a little bit, too, of Brenda Shaughnessy’s comments in a jubilat interview about what happened after her first book — i.e., artifice/masquerade/ornateness began to fall away. What are the values/uses/pleasures of artifice/indirectness and realism/directness as you see them? Or if those are faulty poles, how do you see it?
thx!
becca
ps. sorry for the “emotional/intellectual/andyes,sexual” harassment commenters have given you around here. It’s annoying enough to witness, so I can only imagine how it might feel to think you need to respond to it in some way. Which, I guess, you don’t.
pps. I also just like to see you disrupting people’s expectations of high seriousness for a forum like this.
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By: Joseph Hutchison

Joseph Hutchison — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:21:55 +0000

Somebody should do an anthology of asses in literature. (Not counting the Bible, Mr. Moody: I’ve checked out every one there and they’re all donkeys.)
For example … Ulysses, Episode 15 — Circe:
THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE (Raises high behind the celebrant’s petticoats, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks between which a carrot is stuck.) My body.
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And Michael … calm down!
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By: michael

michael — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:42:01 +0000

Seriously. Take your pants off!!!
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By: Doodle

Doodle — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:59:36 +0000

Nice to have a posterior poetics, at last!
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By: Rick Moody

Rick Moody — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:44:23 +0000

Paul’s letter to Phillipians is somehow germane (and better in King James translation, of course, but still): “Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
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