Comments on: Kill Harriet http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:15:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rachel http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25789 Rachel Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:02:40 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25789 Your post reminded me of Cavafy's "Hidden Things." "Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely." That's the dream, isn't it? I admire the way you move to make that dream a reality. Your post reminded me of Cavafy’s “Hidden Things.”

“Later, in a more perfect society,
someone else made just like me
is certain to appear and act freely.”

That’s the dream, isn’t it? I admire the way you move to make that dream a reality.

]]> By: Ana B http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25786 Ana B Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:07:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25786 Yes, more gravy please, and not only on holidays? Yes, more gravy please, and not only on holidays?

]]> By: Chuck http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25781 Chuck Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:46:01 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25781 Eileen, I will miss your writing here. I just got a copy of The Importance of Being Iceland and am loving it. . so it will sustain me for a little while. Take good care. Eileen, I will miss your writing here. I just got a copy of
The Importance of Being Iceland and am loving it. . so it will sustain me for a little while. Take good care.

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25778 Gary B. Fitzgerald Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:50:04 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25778 "... but the thing that makes us like animals too." In my strange world, to "rise above" means to BE more like the animals. Humans are too vicious for my taste. “… but the thing that makes us like animals too.”

In my strange world, to “rise above” means to BE more like the animals. Humans are too vicious for my taste.

]]> By: Margo Berdeshevsky http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25775 Margo Berdeshevsky Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:29:24 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25775 That's beautiful, Eileen. yes. margo That’s beautiful, Eileen.
yes.

margo

]]> By: LH http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25773 LH Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:24:55 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25773 Yes, that would be "structures" without an apostrophe. They crop up, those apostrophes and commas and my misuse of them, as if to remind me of how tenuous even that little bit of accuracy really is. And how easily those who breeze through language assume it should be for everyone else. Yes, that would be “structures” without an apostrophe. They crop up, those apostrophes and commas and my misuse of them, as if to remind me of how tenuous even that little bit of accuracy really is. And how easily those who breeze through language assume it should be for everyone else.

]]> By: LH http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25772 LH Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:22:30 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25772 I am also grateful, Eileen. Your posts, and perhaps more emphatically the reaction to them, has been a constant reminder of how difficult it is to be oneself in our society--our enlightened, educated society. How difficult it is to be different in any way--whether it's how one structure's one's sentences, the point of view one takes, the vocabulary one chooses, who one sleeps with, or votes for, or relates to...whatever. We all say how open we are, but the reality seems quite different, quite difficult in fact. I am also grateful, Eileen. Your posts, and perhaps more emphatically the reaction to them, has been a constant reminder of how difficult it is to be oneself in our society–our enlightened, educated society. How difficult it is to be different in any way–whether it’s how one structure’s one’s sentences, the point of view one takes, the vocabulary one chooses, who one sleeps with, or votes for, or relates to…whatever. We all say how open we are, but the reality seems quite different, quite difficult in fact.

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25771 Eileen Myles Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:48 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25771 Thanks, Thanks, Thanks. I'll be back w the erratic posts so see everyone here too.... Thanks, Thanks, Thanks. I’ll be back w the erratic posts so see everyone here too….

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25770 Eileen Myles Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:28:53 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25770 Thanks Gary. But I firmly believe the only way out is the way through. If we rise above we leave too much behind - like our body and even not so much our humanity but the thing that makes us like animals too. I forget what to call that thing but I would never seek to transcend it. It's my friend. Thanks Gary. But I firmly believe the only way out is the way through. If we rise above we leave too much behind – like our body and even not so much our humanity but the thing that makes us like animals too. I forget what to call that thing but I would never seek to transcend it. It’s my friend.

]]> By: C. Dale Young http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/kill-harriet/#comment-25766 C. Dale Young Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:25:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5749#comment-25766 You regular posts will be missed. Thank you. I am glad you did it. You regular posts will be missed. Thank you. I am glad you did it.

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