Comments on: Jeff http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/jeff/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:38:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Melissa Friedling http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/jeff/#comment-25581 Melissa Friedling Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:34:54 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5514#comment-25581 He asks if it "tickles you in the heart or the ear." Where else would it tickle? He asks if it “tickles you in the heart or the ear.” Where else would it tickle?

]]> By: Terreson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/jeff/#comment-25578 Terreson Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:13:42 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5514#comment-25578 And here is the answer I am inclined to. "I don't wish to touch hearts. I don't even want to affect minds very much. What I really want to produce is that little sob in the spine of the artist-reader." Nabokov. Terreson And here is the answer I am inclined to.

“I don’t wish to touch hearts. I don’t even
want to affect minds very much. What I really want to produce is that little sob in the spine of the artist-reader.” Nabokov.

Terreson

]]> By: Greg http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/jeff/#comment-25543 Greg Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:08:10 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5514#comment-25543 Does he ask if poetry hits you in the heart or the ear? I think he does. And if so--that is the question, crazy dude. That is the question. Does he ask if poetry hits you in the heart or the ear? I think he does. And if so–that is the question, crazy dude. That is the question.

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