4 Comments for “Sarah and Heather”

1. These are great, definition in context. Our new pediatrician gives me a double-take, “you must be a musician.” “Actually,” I tell him, “I’m a poet,” just to gauge his filter. “Oh, well…musicians are poets, you know?” Meanwhile, the driver in a Madrid taxicab looks in the mirror, same thing,”you must be a musician,” “I’m a poet.” He stops at a light, turns around and says, “thank you.” Doesn’t know who I am, and cab drivers probably more in sync with the undefinable, but…there you go, context in definition.

   Posted By: Edwin Torres on October 21, 2009 at 10:22 am
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2. I like how in Spanish-speaking countries, once they know you’re a poet, people simply call you “Poeta.” If you were an engineer, they’d call you “Ingeniero.” It’s a level of dignity and professional respect.

   Posted By: John Oliver Simon on October 21, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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3. Exactly, in America, a poet/teacher/artist is a mere curiosity.

   Posted By: Edwin Torres on October 21, 2009 at 3:05 pm
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4. Pretty cool. It works for me. Anybody else notice how Sarah turns to nature in her definition?

   “To say ‘metaphor’ tirelessly, with brutal repetition, is one militant way of defending nature as the element to which the Universal is referred, and therefore the element to which poetry has to look. I think the defenders of poetry would not mind saying that they are not prepared to abandon nature, because that would be the abandonment of metaphor, which in turn would mean the abandonment of poetry; which, when they have weighed it, would be a serious abridgment of the range of the human experience.” John Crowe Ransom

   Now I am curious about the young lady’s reading list. Or is there just country in her blood?

   Terreson

   Posted By: Terreson on October 24, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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