I'll be giving a reading for New England Review's Vermont Writers Series on January 19th, 2012, at Carol's Hungry Mind Cafe in Middlebury, Vermont. Also reading will be Neil Shepard, Daniel Lusk, and Stephen Kiernan.
Here's what I really like from Quodlibet:"We Think This, But It Is Never Seen," "I Cannot Say That When I Saw You...," "Today or Tomorrow." And the "Wedding Ring" cycle is fascinating. So palpable.
Thank you thank you! This really helps. I think our intuitions match up, which is very reassuring. I'm especially pleased to hear about "I Cannot Say..." It's one of those ones that I know is doing something, but I'm not sure what it is, and my attempts to workshop it usually got hung up with "um, what is ... capacitance
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Do you feel like the missing six parts would complete the wedding ring? I wouldn't rule them out if they seem to fit. I really like poem cycles.
"In the Beginning" definitely deserves to be loosed from purgatory. Any word-work that manages to sway both my head and heart with an etymological conceit is the kind I want in Paradise. (Seriously. I remember reading this poem when I'd noticed you via nightspore, and thinking that I HAD to be LJ friends with a person who got language like that.)
Thanks for the link to Pocket Property! Kind of irresistible. I'm just about to delve into what looks like a lot of delectable articles on pocket-sized things.
Now you're going to make me cry, you know. Okay, I'll rescue it. I think maybe it can go in with the Burning poems.
Ach, you remind me also: of course the Wedding Ring has to be a cycle! How could I forget? Parts 7 and especially 9 are worth saving even stand-alone. I think I get self-conscious because some in the middle did not come so easily, and so lay around half-finished, anergic, and then I was wedded to the number ten, and so made them happen.
Ooo, I hope you are emptying (or stuffing) your pockets for a new column...
Have you decided yet which poems you'll be reading?
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Also, I still love this one, from over at chlo'jo'lo' "In the Beginning"
http://www.chlojolo.com/chlojolo/archives/2004/12/17/in_the_beginnin.html
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Do you feel like the missing six parts would complete the wedding ring? I wouldn't rule them out if they seem to fit. I really like poem cycles.
"In the Beginning" definitely deserves to be loosed from purgatory. Any word-work that manages to sway both my head and heart with an etymological conceit is the kind I want in Paradise. (Seriously. I remember reading this poem when I'd noticed you via nightspore, and thinking that I HAD to be LJ friends with a person who got language like that.)
Thanks for the link to Pocket Property! Kind of irresistible. I'm just about to delve into what looks like a lot of delectable articles on pocket-sized things.
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Ach, you remind me also: of course the Wedding Ring has to be a cycle! How could I forget? Parts 7 and especially 9 are worth saving even stand-alone. I think I get self-conscious because some in the middle did not come so easily, and so lay around half-finished, anergic, and then I was wedded to the number ten, and so made them happen.
Ooo, I hope you are emptying (or stuffing) your pockets for a new column...
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