http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/02/serious-play-and-dental-surgery/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/02/serious-play-and-dental-surgery/#comment-7163 Henry Gould Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:53:02 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1258#comment-7163 See Giambattista Vico on this topic. History is the play of the imagination. Poetry is hero-worship (Pound). Heroes are action figures. Or Heraclitus, for that matter. Here's a poem I composed at age 4, watching my workaholic father go off to work. He heard me singing this to myself. He wrote it down in pencil on a housekey-tab (a little piece of cardboard) on his way out the door. My mother sent that key-tab to me , 50 years later. PLAY, PLAY, IT'S TIME TO PLAY! PLAY ALL DAY, THAT'S WHAT I SAY! YOUR WORK IS DONE, COME OUT IN THE SUN! PLAY, PLAY, PLAY! See Giambattista Vico on this topic.
History is the play of the imagination. Poetry is hero-worship (Pound). Heroes are action figures.
Or Heraclitus, for that matter.
Here’s a poem I composed at age 4, watching my workaholic father go off to work. He heard me singing this to myself. He wrote it down in pencil on a housekey-tab (a little piece of cardboard) on his way out the door. My mother sent that key-tab to me , 50 years later.
PLAY, PLAY, IT’S TIME TO PLAY!
PLAY ALL DAY, THAT’S WHAT I SAY!
YOUR WORK IS DONE,
COME OUT IN THE SUN!
PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/02/serious-play-and-dental-surgery/#comment-7162 nico vassilakis Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:01:12 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1258#comment-7162 that's like my girlfriend peaking on mushrooms for the first time. that’s like my girlfriend peaking on mushrooms for the first time.
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