tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post1160163706030874883..comments2024-03-27T07:30:21.457-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: emitting cat-calls as heretofore -Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-79166322983811925362017-11-17T09:31:15.054-05:002017-11-17T09:31:15.054-05:00TOC new gunn selected poems
https://www.kinokuniy...TOC new gunn selected poems<br /><br />https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-9780571327690<br /><br /><b>This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career.</b><br /><br /><br />i note that the notes are 80 pages longmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-62606932434860012192017-11-16T17:07:53.123-05:002017-11-16T17:07:53.123-05:00Well, it's only been released in Britain for n...Well, it's only been released in Britain for now, I'll keep an eye out and remember. <br /><br />Actually, I want to find a TOC to compare vs the Selected I already own. If it's practically identical, I'll just get you a copy of the one that already exists.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-23645288025370471592017-11-16T16:56:09.241-05:002017-11-16T16:56:09.241-05:00And (assuming it was an offer to the general publi...And (assuming it was an offer to the general publik about the other poem), sure.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-8937614333853207762017-11-16T16:53:51.450-05:002017-11-16T16:53:51.450-05:00Good dog poem. May have to rethink the Gunn thing....Good dog poem. May have to rethink the Gunn thing.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-86676562404793393532017-11-16T12:21:22.156-05:002017-11-16T12:21:22.156-05:00Read Luttwak's book on Strategy when I was pra...Read Luttwak's book on Strategy when I was practicing law. Analytic mind. May check out the book. May have applications at lesser levels.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-16872721625889255572017-11-16T09:02:18.740-05:002017-11-16T09:02:18.740-05:00re "best dog poem" - it's very good ...re "best dog poem" - it's very good - also i like <br /><br /><br />"The Promotion" by James Tate<br /><br /><br /><br />I was a dog in my former life, a very good<br />dog, and, thus, I was promoted to a human being.<br />I liked being a dog. I worked for a poor farmer<br />guarding and herding his sheep. Wolves and coyotes<br />tried to get past me almost every night, and not<br />once did I lose a sheep. The farmer rewarded me<br />with good food, food from his table. He may have<br />been poor, but he ate well, and his children<br />played with me, when they weren’t in school or<br />working in the field. I had all the love any dog<br />could hope for. When I got old, they got a new<br />dog, and I trained him in the tricks of the trade.<br />He quickly learned, and the farmer brought me into<br />the house to live with them. I brought the farmer<br />his slippers in the morning, as he was getting<br />old, too. I was dying slowly, a little bit at a<br />time. The farmer knew this and would bring the<br />new dog in to visit me from time to time. The<br />new dog would entertain me with his flips and<br />flops and nuzzles. And then one morning I just<br />didn’t get up. They gave me a fine burial down<br />by the stream under a shade tree. That was the<br />end of my being a dog. Sometimes I miss it so<br />I sit by the window and cry. I live in a high-rise<br />that looks out at a bunch of other high-rises.<br />At my job I work in a cubicle and barely speak<br />to anyone all day. This is my reward for being<br />a good dog. The human wolves don’t even see me.<br />They fear me not.<br /><br /><br />i conclude that the cubicle dweller of Tate's poem is worse off in his current incarnation - his "promotion" to a human life has not gone well - for two reasons<br /><br />1)his emotional needs were much better met in his life as a dog - Tate evokes this beautifully, and anyone who has loved a dog must be moved by this<br /><br />2)contrariwise, Tate's protagonist, looking backwards at his former happiness, has not yet grasped his current opportunity and responsibility for "the development of his soul", to use old-fashioned language<br /><br />see the Monty Python creed - movie excerpt<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ<br /><br />my exegesis of the above:<br /><br />http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003164.html - see my comment at December 1, 2009 05:43 PM<br /><br /><br />Tate's protagonist is reborn into human circumstances, but he is still reacting, rather than responding to, his current place in the universe -<br /><br />he needs to be reminded of the possibility he has to "shine"<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6S1-Jj8cE<br /><br /><b></b> mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-46630030890398214262017-11-15T19:57:02.186-05:002017-11-15T19:57:02.186-05:00Best dog poem ever: see http://www.blckdgrd.com/20...Best dog poem ever: see http://www.blckdgrd.com/2017/08/dreaming-flower-i-have-never-seen-or.html again.<br /><br />I'll send you a copy of the new selected once I find it. Please?<br /><br />BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-44651170935848875532017-11-15T13:37:14.357-05:002017-11-15T13:37:14.357-05:001.) Glad Show Gala was good.
2.) Hoo Boy is the ...1.) Glad Show Gala was good. <br /><br />2.) <i>Hoo Boy</i> is the planet pissed. Wouldn't we be? And, <i>aren't</i> we, anyway?<br /><br />3.) Answer: Quite a while ago.<br /><br />4.) Rhetorical Answer: "Nice day, huh? Hey; that's Tasty Stuff, there. Let's have some more."<br /><br />5.) Gunn didn't quite get into my personal poetry pantheon, but, Vroom.<br /><br />6.) “ 'You should be writing from life,' he tells her, 'from the depths of your soul.' ” Well, you know; those Northern European guys. Always going on about <i>Das Ding An Sich</i>, and <i>Also Sprach Euthanasia</i>, or stuff like that.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.com