Comments on: Intimate in Pace http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:15:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25241 Gary B. Fitzgerald Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:28:56 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25241 And guess what? Annie Finch has the Lao-tzu quote, too, not you. She should never have written that post 'Eileen and Me (1982)'. Now I've got you all mixed up. :-) And guess what? Annie Finch has the Lao-tzu quote, too, not you.

She should never have written that post ‘Eileen and Me (1982)’. Now I’ve got you all mixed up. :-)

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25237 Gary B. Fitzgerald Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:29:01 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25237 Eileen: my mistake...sorry. I was referring to a post from back in June but when I started searching for the title I discovered it was by Annie Finch. She was camping in New York and you were hiking in Colorado at about the same time. I got mixed up. I have enjoyed your posts. Unfortunately, it looks like I've been voted off the island. Good luck. Eileen: my mistake…sorry. I was referring to a post from back in June but when I started searching for the title I discovered it was by Annie Finch. She was camping in New York and you were hiking in Colorado at about the same time. I got mixed up.

I have enjoyed your posts. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ve been voted off the island.

Good luck.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25233 Eileen Myles Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:23:11 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25233 Yeah mainly I think you shouldn't have to sleep before you think. You could be awake reading. Try it. Yeah mainly I think you shouldn’t have to sleep before you think. You could be awake reading. Try it.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25232 Eileen Myles Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:20:55 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25232 what do you mean by frogs? what do you mean by frogs?

]]> By: John Oliver Simon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25230 John Oliver Simon Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:13:58 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25230 I agree with Jill. Eileen is manifesting her poetry in the world, which is part of the gig, of the vocation. And she reflects, right-sized as she can be, on the event. I agree with Jill. Eileen is manifesting her poetry in the world, which is part of the gig, of the vocation. And she reflects, right-sized as she can be, on the event.

]]> By: Jill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25229 Jill Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:08:56 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25229 Jeez, Terreson, you are such a grouch! Who cares if you don't like it? Move on. You don't get it. Nuff said. Eileen's post is great stuff--a slice of mind from a poet in action, on tour, reading, doing all the things you aren't. Read and learn. Jeez, Terreson, you are such a grouch! Who cares if you don’t like it? Move on. You don’t get it. Nuff said. Eileen’s post is great stuff–a slice of mind from a poet in action, on tour, reading, doing all the things you aren’t. Read and learn.

]]> By: Terreson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25223 Terreson Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:42:57 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25223 Well, by now I figure I am on Harriet's shortlist of posters to get shunned. But it seems to me that any blogger here understands that she is writing to her peers, to other writers, poets, wordsmiths, and thinkers. From my standpoint, to be less than honest would be intellectually dishonest. This is not just bad writing, it is perfectly vacant. Of ideation. Of expression. Of skill. Of that mostest thing every poet should demand of herself, duende. I honestly don't get it. If this is what the current poetry scene calls good writing, and good thinking, I really don't get it. Seriously. As a reader what am I to take away from the blog when I wake up tomorrow? Terreson Well, by now I figure I am on Harriet’s shortlist of posters to get shunned. But it seems to me that any blogger here understands that she is writing to her peers, to other writers, poets, wordsmiths, and thinkers. From my standpoint, to be less than honest would be intellectually dishonest.

This is not just bad writing, it is perfectly vacant. Of ideation. Of expression. Of skill. Of that mostest thing every poet should demand of herself, duende.

I honestly don’t get it. If this is what the current poetry scene calls good writing, and good thinking, I really don’t get it. Seriously. As a reader what am I to take away from the blog when I wake up tomorrow?

Terreson

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25221 Gary B. Fitzgerald Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:59:55 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25221 BTW, Ms. Myles, you have yet to answer my question from way back when: which chapter of the Tao Te Ching do you have pinned as a 'Talisman' over your desk? Speaking as a Taoist, I'm just curious. BTW, Ms. Myles, you have yet to answer my question from way back when: which chapter of the Tao Te Ching do you have pinned as a ‘Talisman’ over your desk?

Speaking as a Taoist, I’m just curious.

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/intimate-in-pace/#comment-25220 Gary B. Fitzgerald Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:42:22 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5066#comment-25220 You hate frogs, don't you? You hate punctuation, don't you? You hate paragraphs, don't you? You hate frogs, don’t you?

You hate punctuation, don’t you?

You hate paragraphs, don’t you?

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