tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post5887251462569369236..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Kenneth Irby & the Words in his New BookCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-53511107954927528722010-02-13T05:24:36.084-08:002010-02-13T05:24:36.084-08:00I mean your language, the way you write (present y...I mean your language, the way you write (present your personality), not your opinions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41370138267028003452010-02-13T05:07:57.264-08:002010-02-13T05:07:57.264-08:00Whitman's content was/is in search of it s OWN...Whitman's content was/is in search of it s OWN form.. instead of writing Poetry he might have served his words more-better had he let them be and define/find their own form rather than being 'pigeon-holed'<br /><br />what s that old add-age?<br /><br />form is function?<br />or is it<br /> content and form cannot be separate from?<br /><br />or is it<br /><br />form is (merely) and extension of content?<br /><br />etcEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-21228415842600944932010-02-12T21:15:57.875-08:002010-02-12T21:15:57.875-08:00You sound lame, Anny. As per usual. Not about hip....You sound lame, Anny. As per usual. Not about hip. More akin to something like...Dasein, really<br /><br />And perhaps insulted because someone doesn't care for beatnik guru Walt, or the SF school? Yeah, that's it. <br /><br />(and Sir Faville, it wasn't only cranks or conservatives who objected to Whitman, or the whitman style. ).Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-24789895486953434532010-02-12T15:13:10.235-08:002010-02-12T15:13:10.235-08:00J--
why the incessant hip posing?
Because it sou...J--<br /><br />why the incessant hip posing?<br /><br />Because it sounds lame, rather than hip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-90963893594067235292010-02-12T11:30:35.301-08:002010-02-12T11:30:35.301-08:00I'm just kiddin' Sir F. Poet I am not, but...I'm just kiddin' Sir F. Poet I am not, but read some klassix sometimes, Kelley/Sheats, Hound, Helliot, etc. Once twenty years ago or so, scanned Fussell's little primer on poetics and few other thangs. Alas, "tu no se puede escribir en poesia...en ingles". Pound nearly asserted as much, yo pienso<br /><br />So this was more about WW, than K. Irby (chingada...bad connotations). What you posted seems pleasant enough.<br /><br />Whitmanesque rhapsody not my fave, though at times Waltski played a few nice riffs. When I first read WW (in a hellish 'Merican lit. course), I was more impressed with Democratic Vistas, than with his "poetry." <br /><br />As far as 19th cent. the Thanatopsis dude, or EAPoe, S Crane, more to my taste than WW pastoral, and already diggin' your bon mot de gothique, "the Earth is a Grave."<br /><br /><br />Sometime, like during the 50s American writers forgot about Death, maybe since it had become banalJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-80540909373522726812010-02-12T10:31:38.637-08:002010-02-12T10:31:38.637-08:00The "leaves" were the leaves of a book. ...The "leaves" were the leaves of a book. Paper is the literal cellulose of plant matter, mashed up and processed and flattened and dried. The leaves are also the sheaves of stalks--countless in number--covering our praries--which symbolize the democratic commonality we all share as citizens. <br /><br />Either you hear (and feel) the music of Irby's poetry, or you don't. It's your choice. Give it a try.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-1596123786663774432010-02-12T10:13:47.823-08:002010-02-12T10:13:47.823-08:00Some, perusing the Leaves of Grass,
detect a belch...Some, perusing the Leaves of Grass,<br />detect a belch of mystic gas.<br /><br />Who pens poems for yankee Prairies?<br />A farm-boy or... broadway fairy.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-30075974208937991942010-02-11T21:11:37.718-08:002010-02-11T21:11:37.718-08:00""A" apple?"
It's not the...""A" apple?"<br /><br />It's not the same.<br /><br />I would say "unique" begins with a "consonantal 'u'", as here:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Indefinite_article<br /><br />no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84598867740207936352010-02-11T06:19:51.530-08:002010-02-11T06:19:51.530-08:00I just ate an apple!
usually have
AN apple A day...I just ate an apple!<br /><br />usually have <br />AN apple A day<br />keeps the doctor away<br /><br />an' I ain't jus' a-whistling Dixie<br /><br />..or Kansas, either!Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-79329498687388716432010-02-11T06:15:59.241-08:002010-02-11T06:15:59.241-08:00for the same reason
"an honor" is CORRE...for the same reason <br />"an honor" is CORRECT!<br />or<br />"an order" , "an ordinarily..", "an erection", etc.<br /><br /><br />one must pay an attention to ALL of the details..Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-17376493105313366452010-02-10T19:32:03.664-08:002010-02-10T19:32:03.664-08:00"A" apple?"A" apple?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-32785242258574677642010-02-10T15:13:17.489-08:002010-02-10T15:13:17.489-08:00'an unique'
"n" why?'an unique'<br /><br />"n" why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-65082994762369126592010-02-10T13:37:37.878-08:002010-02-10T13:37:37.878-08:00Imagine how the variant purposes and tendencies in...Imagine how the variant purposes and tendencies in the works of these two Kansas poets intertwine, loop about, like two delicious flutes. At times curt, abrupt, at others easy, legs stretching out. <br /><br />"I am Walt Whitman" --a universe. Contained and containing, various, catholic, entire.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-37434606165084909982010-02-10T12:09:50.052-08:002010-02-10T12:09:50.052-08:00I'm very intrigued by this post. First, the b...I'm very intrigued by this post. First, the book - -I've seen it -- looks amazing, as a thing and within, and I criticize myself for not yet getting into it deep. <br /><br />But also: is your style here, Curtis, which I read as different from some other posts -- by which I mean in this one, the sentences go, ambulate more, around this way and that:<br /><br />Does the style here reflect the influence of reading the poems?<br /><br />The two excerpts here suggest an expansive poetics that goes and goes....Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-11429176537655211612010-02-10T11:10:50.103-08:002010-02-10T11:10:50.103-08:00there is certainly something to say for keeping y...there is certainly something to say for keeping your ear to the ground (place) and listening/hearing the rhythms/music in and on the wind..<br /><br /> the lines, his lines a kind of Magical sense and sounding..<br /><br />I thought I was the only one who knew (of) his work!<br /><br />that "space all people live in"<br /><br />well<br /><br />each one of us <br />a place to go out <br />from when/if we choose.<br /><br />what America needs right now more hay-seeds<br /><br />a-plantin' seedlings like Irby <br /><br /><br />thanks for the neat attitude/words here..<br />his and yours<br /><br />no one need ever "misuse the landscape" <br /><br />-if you "get my drift"<br /><br />(ignore this if you think that is too "corn-pone" I know EVERYTHING about Kansas via<br /><br />The Wizard of Oz and Dekalb Wheat/Corn -fields.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com