The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 12/19/07

BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 02:12 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 12/19/07

Misery of cold, treachery of dark, agony
Of sin, bottomless sorrow of evil:

the agony of rage unspent.

sorrow of revenge

Bottomless agony of the self-wounded
Soul in self-extinction.

agony
Of despair

—Robert Pinsky

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ThomCat

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Wed Dec-19-07 02:14 PM
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1. That is almost cinematic.

:)

That brings all kinds of images to mind. It's very visually emotional.

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BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 02:29 PM
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2. I weep every day that you aren't in at least one advanced poetry seminar.

Yeah, I know you have the motherload of unreasonable crap to deal with right now, but...eh...(whines) Start putting money in a cooking jar for the tuition, dude.

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ThomCat

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Wed Dec-19-07 02:31 PM
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3. If (when) I get the oportunity, I promise I'll take it

and I'll post here about it too. :)

:hug:

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BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 02:34 PM
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4. You better.

It's a moral imperitive.

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RetroLounge

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Wed Dec-19-07 03:54 PM
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5. Ah, Pinsky...

I need to read more of his...

:hi:

RL

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Wed Dec-19-07 04:02 PM
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6. My dear BlueIris...

Very dark, and expressive...

Seems nearly suicidal...

Amazing how just a few words can be so evocative, isn't it?

Thank you... :hug:

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BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 04:25 PM
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7. I'm so happy this poem has received so many positive comments.

Pinsky was ripped quite a bit after publishing this. People kept insinuating he'd turned into a pretentious git, become what he'd criticized other poets for being (vague, imprecise, etc.). But I love this one! It's great.

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Wed Dec-19-07 07:56 PM
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10. vague, imprecise?

not to me.

Perhaps I have a vivid imagination
maybe I am just full of shit.

but, if he ain't talking about
the devil.

I will kiss your ass.

sorry, but...that is what I felt. I felt the cold hands of the devil at the bottom of this one.

ymmv

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BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 07:44 PM
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8. Kick.

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WildEyedLiberal

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Wed Dec-19-07 07:45 PM
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9. He did a translation of Dante's Inferno I believe

I haven't read his translation but if he can capture despair so succinctly in so few words, I think he's more than up to the challenge of Dante's classic.

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BlueIris

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Wed Dec-19-07 08:33 PM
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11. Yup. He also translated, "The Separate Notebooks" by Czeslaw Milosz

Edited on Wed Dec-19-07 08:39 PM by BlueIris

and...something by Paul Celan. My favorite thing he's done is actually the collection he put together in the late '90s called The Handbook of Heartbreak, which is, well, a book about poems on frustration, misery, etc.

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