tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post6744700541491446187..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Editing Eigner's Collected Poems - Considerations [Part III]Curtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-28127603200818486562010-04-19T17:55:18.967-07:002010-04-19T17:55:18.967-07:00Curtis,
This is an amazing post!!!
David, judgin...Curtis,<br /><br />This is an amazing post!!!<br /><br />David, judging from the Duncan/Levertov letters, Levertov had a real 'blind' spot/prejudices toward people with disabilities.Jennifer Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931457867406555423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-24786535709027430262010-04-03T08:51:24.490-07:002010-04-03T08:51:24.490-07:00Well-written article. I once hit the "impasse...Well-written article. I once hit the "impasse" of perception about Larry's "disability" you had with Marvin Bell; in my case it was in correspondence with Denise Levertov about his influence on my work.David Gitinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04583495622748181359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-62475749925510997222010-03-24T15:26:51.111-07:002010-03-24T15:26:51.111-07:00Are the poems usually autobiographical: describing...Are the poems usually autobiographical: describing scenes and events and daily reading and notes from life, or does he make things up, too?<br /><br />In the one book of his that I have I thought they were autobiographical, but about funny things most people wouldn't notice, like the sausage poem.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-77772880168412830952010-03-24T14:25:19.840-07:002010-03-24T14:25:19.840-07:00The strangest thing is, after seven years of typin...The strangest thing is, after seven years of typing and editing and going over and over it, I read the pages now and I can't for the life of me actually remember some of the poems!<br /><br />Perhaps this is because there are so many. The shorter ones ring bells, but some of the longer poems--it's like I'm reading them for the first time. This is partly the disorientation of seeing them in the context of a bound book, for the first time.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-28816574424274940102010-03-24T14:01:12.732-07:002010-03-24T14:01:12.732-07:00Curtis,
I haven't had time over the past few ...Curtis,<br /><br />I haven't had time over the past few days to do much more than heft and dip into my copy, but it's already a delight. No qualms or misgivings about the format or typography or design or any such here. Just the opposite: it's handsome and abundant and makes a very grand gesture: itself, or themselves, as one chooses to turn.<br /><br />Especially noteworthy, I think: you and your co-editor's diligent commitment to chronology. Often with a "collected" arranged in order of the original print editions, there's a tendency to slide over the familiar volumes and ransack the odds and ends for news. Or so I've found. Here, one is simply adrift on the sea. In its new context, even the familiar work is new. One starts fresh; goes back to the poem, as LE did, and of necessity slows to its focus and pace. Not a book for a day, but for many days. All that.<br /><br />Best,<br />KirkUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-38599781085016116592010-03-24T13:44:50.620-07:002010-03-24T13:44:50.620-07:00not sure how to say this
however not being sure ne...not sure how to say this<br />however not being sure never stopped me before<br /><br />something strikes me <br />his attitude is one of affirmation and creating-ivity:<br /> I AM! I AM!<br /><br />rather than that (Hamlet) crap about<br /><br />"To be or not to be. That is the question."<br /><br />well, the past is the past and is dead...<br />and<br />the future ain't never gonna get here.. neither via politics(lies) (hope) OR religion (faith,myth and hope)<br /> <br />just must mostly be in the "I am" place and<br /><br />get in your bag and do your thing<br /><br /><br />there is also this 'thing' about using words/type/ribbon/paper<br /><br />to MAKE<br /> a "painting" (w/words simultaneously<br />a dichotomy ofEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com