tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post7311120462254711058..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: There Was an Italian Pharmacist Who Lived in an Expensive Apartment in the Best Part of Town; We Plotted to Overthrow a Tottering DynastyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-21844106404654945212014-09-30T09:50:41.043-04:002014-09-30T09:50:41.043-04:00i read the poem you linked to by c.d. wright - ...i read the poem you linked to by c.d. wright - 'living' - and wanting to know more about her i read the wikipedia entry on her and then went on to read about 'elliptical poetry' and here is a quote from that wikipedia entry<br /><br /><b>"C. D. Wright, a poet termed elliptical by Burt, states her nervousness about the label in an interview with Kent Johnson in Jacket Magazine: "Regarding the elliptical business, I’m less enthusiastic. But I do think it is a stab at authentication of poets who don’t belong to a team and whose work is reluctant to be either excluded or subsumed by one or the other, yet has sympathetic concerns to certain strains and not to others." <br /><br />In a 2009 essay, also in Boston Review, Burt proposed that a poetic movement he called "The New Thing" has succeeded ellipticism."</b><br /><br />at first glance i found myself amused that an essay published in boston review would propose that a perceived new poetic movement would be called something so unspecific as 'the new thing' - but on second thought, why not? hablar hablar hablar <br /><br />and why don't the dictionaries recognize that this spanish repetitive use of the word "to speak" - meaning it is talk and too much talk and nothing but talk - is the origin of the english phrase 'blah blah blah' ? it is perfectly obvious, at least to me - instead all the authorities assert it is onomatopoeic and echoic <br /><br />wright's echoic use in 'living' of the phrase 'if this is wednesday' reminded me of a high point of my activities yesterday - i recently received a new day and date digital watch - a replacement for my previous watch of the same model, casio f-91w - i lack the skills to make it part of a dangerous assemblage of electromechanicochemical parts, but i have read that this model is a particular favorite of those who have such skills - yesterday i set the month, the day, the date, the time - with some trial and error, i managed to do that without having to look at the extremely small print instructions<br /><br />i started reading the other poem you linked to, anne waters' 'cabin', but found my concentration flagging - the title had reminded me of a film by joss whedon, whose tv series 'firefly' spouse and self had watched over the weekend, and enjoyed - however, his film 'the cabin in the woods' does <b>not</b> sound like something we want to see - instead i asked the montgomery county public libraries to bring me a copy of whedon's production of shakespeare's 'much ado about nothing', featuring the actor portraying the spaceship captain in 'firefly', nathan fillion<br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com