I have a question: is it possible to write a poem, or any work of literature, without using a narrator? That is, without using the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person! Think about the idea for a little bit before your make any final conclusions. Just think about it as a puzzle: how would you write [...]
Archive for March, 2008
David Bowie and those F’ing Spiders from Mars!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mmmm…tastes like burning!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The hookah is an amazing social device. This week, I give props to the person who invented it.
I just want to take a few brie minutes to go back to our dwellings on the sun, that big yellow center of our pointed discussion last week. I think that one of the most interesting aspects of [...]
Drugstore by Josh Bell
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is that young poet we read in class yesterday. I looked at some of his poetry online and I highly recommend that everyone read some of his other stuff. His style/voice is awesome, and his use of language is the definition of tight.
Unfortunately, his book is like 50+ dollars on amazon (used).
I [...]
Diatribes and Simon & Garfunkel
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll admit, I really enjoyed the Walcott lecture. I did have some qualms about it though. As awesome and humbling as it is to be able to say that you were in the same room with such honored individual I really felt like he could have been a little more responsive to the audience’s questions. [...]
lovely phrasing
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hey kids,
I’ve taken note of some lovely phrasing I’ve read this semester. Most of it comes from our poetry packets.
“Like an illuminated curlicue,
The vine provides, with grace,
Importance.”
-Svoboda, “Conquistador”
“but
Hesitant, calling as if he didn’t really want to find her.”
-Svoboda, “The Ranchhand’s Daughter”
“the breaths that attach”
-Hicok, “String Theory”
Rhapsody in glow-blue.
“seeing what you’ve left
gets more beautiful, less specific”
-Doty [...]
Li-Young Lee on Jack Gilbert
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jack Gilbert, Li-Young Lee on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I was recently watching poet Jack Gilbert eat potato salad. He was eating all of it, his full self. It was epic.”
I love this.
knee painting
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On visual art:Firstly, perhaps this isn’t quite what Derek Walcott had in mind, but check out the knee painting: Also, I really liked the description he used about all poems having a necessary light and contour. And David: I remember Walcott saying that all art inspires a joyous transcendence (or something or other, I can’t [...]
The man himself
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading the poem “Ode to a Woman Gardening” by Pablo Neruda. Read this and let me know what you think. He even makes reference to Seamus Heaney in the poem. The way he describes and compares the woman to the earth, I think, reflects on our discussion of love and sex in poems. [...]
For some reason, this love thing is really exciting me
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about a dirty poem! I just found my new inspiration and its by a poet named John Donne. The poem is titled “Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed”. Please read this:COME, madam, come, all rest my powers defy ;Until I labour, I in labour lie.The foe ofttimes, having the foe in sight,Is [...]
“it’s like a picture I’ve painted/ it’s so perfect/ Open ya eyes”-Beanie Sigel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David is awesome, fartsy, French, paint, Walcott on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I went to that lunch thing with Derek Walcott and didn’t say a single word to him. Why? He was really into the Art students and their work. It was all about French painter Jaque Cuwewemawuwu or Albert Frenchtoastcrepeeiffel. Afterwards, he walked into a student’s art studio and looked at her work. I tagged [...]
