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| Dan Tompsett
Valued Member Username: db_tompsett Post Number: 178 Registered: 07-2007 |
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/long-island/04Rpoets.html?_r=1 | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 5228 Registered: 05-2006 |
Billy Collins was featured about two months ago at D.G. Wills, a bookstore here in San Diego. I attended the reading, and frankly it was the best poetry reading I have ever attended. I was also turned on by Kim Addonizio, about five years ago, however, I must confess to a sexual element in that reaction. Fred From Bambi: "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." From me: "Even consciousness, a pastiche of recycled cans." | ||
| Jan Thie
New member Username: jantar Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2008 |
Thanks for posting this. I had missed it somehow. Still, I almost did not read beyond the first sentence. Stupid journalists with their lazy preference for cheap word play and (not really) clever-funny quotes: "Maybe January is the cruelest month." Give me a break. That's the THIRD frigging time I read that same variation on this old Eliot line in TWO HOURS of online newspaper reading... Sometimes, I think all those lazy journalists should be banished to those wastelands themselves. (Yes, a cheap pun; I know - so sue me.) Bah. (End of rant.) Jan. "The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." (Mark Twain) | ||
| Jeffrey S. Lange
Advanced Member Username: runatyr Post Number: 1123 Registered: 10-2005 |
Meh, don't be mad. It's a fun in-joke for readers of poetry, even if you do see it repeated now and again. And I love any reminder of it, as it always brings to mind the recording of Eliot reading his own work, with his bizarre Midwest U.S./English accent. http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_01_ITH.au | ||
| "A-Bear"
Senior Member Username: dane Post Number: 2345 Registered: 11-1998 |
Thanks for the article, Dan. What I found interesting is from where these writers draw their inspiration. It would seem location and solace are the two most important factors to create prolifically and prolifically well. I'm personally in a holding pattern right now (have been for the better part of a year). I'm pulling up the roots I planted here in Reno (more than 8 years ago) and I’m moving into the vast unknown once again. No place in particular to call home but I now have a few ideas and a better feel for what I should be looking for to break my writer's block. A monastery that offers sabbaticals once a week. A Zen like setting for contemplation. It could work.  |
