tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post216504125680963026..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Renewal Project Is DoomedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-10518998978598402312017-07-31T19:54:36.817-04:002017-07-31T19:54:36.817-04:00Goldbarth Types!
part of what i sent him, by snai...<b>Goldbarth Types!</b><br /><br /><i>part of what i sent him, by snailmail:<br /><br />>>I’m writing about a line in your poem “Laws of the Universe”. As published at the Iowa Review in 2001, it read<br /><br />If you aren't given a burden, you must carve your own.<br /><br />As the poem appeared in</i> Combinations of the Universe<i>, and as reprinted elsewhere, the word “your” is absent.<br /><br />Is this difference a revision, or a typo? I’m guessing the latter, and that the earlier version is the accurate one, but I hope to hear from you about it – SASE enclosed for your convenience in replying.<<<br /><br />after expressing, jocularly, his disappointment that there was a typo in </i>Combinations of the Universe<i>, he replied </i><br /><br />"Your letter is the first I know about it. You're correct, of course: the <i>Iowa Review</i> version is right, and the dropping of 'your' is an error. You also mention that the poem has been 'reprinted elsewhere' besides the Ohio State University volume. I wouldn't mind knowing the details on that. Slovenly as I am in records keeping, and happily insulated as I am in my completely offline existence, I often miss out on the ancillary adventures of my own work."<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-80015320421470831062017-07-24T15:58:04.139-04:002017-07-24T15:58:04.139-04:00more from goldbarth (and still more?)
while looki...<b>more from goldbarth (and still more?)</b><br /><br /><i>while looking for other iterations of 'laws of the universe' to see what versions they had of the 'burden' line, i came across the following - which i took as a synchronistic sign to write to the poet about the typo - i enclosed a stamped self-addressed envelope for his convenience in writing back - if i receive a reply i will post it here</i><br /><br /><br /><b>"Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly"</b><br /><br />—a typo in Clifford Simak’s <i>A Heritage of Stars</i><br /><br /><br />We believed they were horses; and so<br />we saddled up, we rode expectantly<br />through the long day and into the night.<br />Then we dismounted; and slept; and still<br />they continued to carry us<br />—the hours. They wouldn’t stop.<br />They carried us clean away.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.bpj.org/poems/goldbarth_darkness.htmlmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-18566870367839214612017-07-21T18:16:30.775-04:002017-07-21T18:16:30.775-04:001)there is a word omitted here, and elsewhere, fro...1)there is a word omitted here, and elsewhere, from goldbarth's poem, which apparently was first published in the iowa review in 2001<br /><br />http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5429&context=iowareview<br /><br /><br />the version given there has the line as<br /><br /><i>If you aren't given a burden, you must carve your own</i><br /><br />the word "your" does not appear in the poem here, or at the poetry foundation site, or at several other locations<br /><br /><br />2)here's a snippet of conversation i had with a stranger today - <br /><br />"it's exactly sixty five dollars" - said the costco cashier<br /><br />"how 'bout that" - i replied<br /><br />"good work" was her rejoinder<br /><br />we both smiled, even though we knew i had not actually done anything praiseworthy<br /><br /><br />3)speaking of apparently omitted words - or were they ? - the homily father justin gave at the mass i attended yesterday was on one of that day's readings, exodus 3:14, rendered into english in a phrasing slightly different from the one i encountered as a child, 'I AM WHO AM'<br /><br /><br />4) and speaking of names, congratulations on the domain name extension - long may it wave<br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com