Comments on: DEAR HARRIET http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18816 Matt Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:48 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18816 And this supports your point how? And this supports your point how?

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18549 Eileen Myles Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:13:07 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18549 I was hoping I could "dislike" someone's dislike of Bobby's inquiry about the tortillas but turns out you can only dislike a post. You can't dislike a comment on a post. I suppose it's because Harriet would become a chain of dislike. So I'm saying it in words and redundantly too. I dislike the dislike. Come out, coward. What do you have against tortillas or friendly chatter. Poet nose to the grindstone fighting and feuding all the time? Though admittedly I like to beat people up. I was hoping I could “dislike” someone’s dislike of Bobby’s inquiry about the tortillas but turns out you can only dislike a post. You can’t dislike a comment on a post. I suppose it’s because Harriet would become a chain of dislike. So I’m saying it in words and redundantly too. I dislike the dislike. Come out, coward. What do you have against tortillas or friendly chatter. Poet nose to the grindstone fighting and feuding all the time? Though admittedly I like to beat people up.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18292 Eileen Myles Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:06:28 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18292 Hi Bobby The tortillas were great! Now I am at ze macdowell. Send love to my son, the cat. love Eileen Hi Bobby

The tortillas were great! Now I am at ze macdowell. Send love to my son, the cat.

love

Eileen

]]> By: Harriet Harvey http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18046 Harriet Harvey Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:01:21 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18046 When the dogs of cyberspace eat my homework, I think of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's legendary account of how the entire text of "Kubla Khan" appeared to him in an opium-fueled dream, and how this vision evaporated when that irritating "person on business from Porlock" interrupted after he had transcribed only a few lines. But Coleridge bravely soldiered on, and wrote his epic poem, different, no doubt, from the drug-induced hallucination -- and probably much better. When the dogs of cyberspace eat my homework, I think of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s legendary account of how the entire text of “Kubla Khan” appeared to him in an opium-fueled dream, and how this vision evaporated when that irritating “person on business from Porlock” interrupted after he had transcribed only a few lines. But Coleridge bravely soldiered on, and wrote his epic poem, different, no doubt, from the drug-induced hallucination — and probably much better.

]]> By: thomas brady http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18012 thomas brady Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:42:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18012 Perhaps the gentleman known as Matt should read "The history of the English Paragraph" by Edwin Herbert Lewis. Especially interesting is a discussion of the one sentence paragraph controversy. A great many famous prose stylists make use of the one sentence paragraph. The percentages of this use are given. Perhaps the gentleman known as Matt should read “The history of the English Paragraph” by Edwin Herbert Lewis.

Especially interesting is a discussion of the one sentence paragraph controversy.

A great many famous prose stylists make use of the one sentence paragraph. The percentages of this use are given.

]]> By: Matt http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-18000 Matt Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:29 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-18000 This is honestly the first time I've ever heard anyone speak of a "disdain for the paragraph". I'm guessing, but I think that if you did a study of the paragraph lengths of all different kinds of literature through the ages, you probably wouldn't be able to make any significant generalizations. If you need to breathe, use a bookmark. Put the bookmark under the spot where you stopped, look up, breathe, look down again, and continue reading. Just five easy steps! Sometimes I take a breather in the middle of a sentence, if it's a long one. This is honestly the first time I’ve ever heard anyone speak of a “disdain for the paragraph”. I’m guessing, but I think that if you did a study of the paragraph lengths of all different kinds of literature through the ages, you probably wouldn’t be able to make any significant generalizations.

If you need to breathe, use a bookmark. Put the bookmark under the spot where you stopped, look up, breathe, look down again, and continue reading. Just five easy steps!

Sometimes I take a breather in the middle of a sentence, if it’s a long one.

]]> By: Bobby Byrd http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-17979 Bobby Byrd Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:21:53 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-17979 I hope at least that the tortillas were still good and a little bit fresh. Ernie sends his love. Bobby I hope at least that the tortillas were still good and a little bit fresh. Ernie sends his love.
Bobby

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-17105 Eileen Myles Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:20:36 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-17105 too many shoulds, thomas. sounds like an exhausting practice and a life. too many shoulds, thomas. sounds like an exhausting practice and a life.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-17104 Eileen Myles Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:19:10 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-17104 I tend to like these poems you post. I tend to like these poems you post.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/trauma/#comment-17103 Eileen Myles Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:18:01 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4143#comment-17103 I'm awaiting my good fortune but it might not take that form. I’m awaiting my good fortune but it might not take that form.

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