The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/21/08

BlueIris

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Mon Apr-21-08 12:29 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/21/08

"Conversation"

"Yet with a slight shift of will....,"
Confiding she couldn't say no to her mother. Still. Even in the dream.
Then insisting on declining the half of a ripe fig
her friend offered and she wanted.

—Carol Snow

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BlueIris

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Mon Apr-21-08 02:37 PM
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1. Kick.

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Westegg

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Mon Apr-21-08 02:44 PM
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2. It reminds me of "This Is Just To Say"....

...by W.C.W.

"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold."

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BlueIris

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Mon Apr-21-08 02:50 PM
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3. Since you mentioned that one...

what do you think that particular Williams piece is "about"?

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Westegg

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Mon Apr-21-08 04:08 PM
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6. I wrote a great response...

...and then I went to check on a Robert Motherwell reference and when I came back my post was deleted. Sorry. I can't duplicate it. Not now. I'm still too fucking angry. The internet acts a certain way most of the time, and then it acts a different way other times. And I lose what I wrote. Fuck you, Al Gore. Time was, a fella just put pen to paper. I wish I knew that time.

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BlueIris

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Mon Apr-21-08 11:53 PM
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7. Oh, hon. That is terrible. My connection has been wonky today, too.

The reason I asked is because I had this crazy AP lit teacher back in the day who insisted that "This Is Just To Say" was the proverbial "morning after" poem; a speaker "apologizing" for deflowering someone, basically. My 17-year-old self thought that was brilliant, but I've never been able to get any actual academics to substantiate this interp. All of the profs I mentioned it to during undergrad looked at me strangely when I told the story.

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Mon Apr-21-08 03:08 PM
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4. My dear BlueIris...

Nice!

She had to refuse her friend...

Because of her mom?

The things we do, to show our independence...

Thank you!

:hi:

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BlueIris

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Mon Apr-21-08 03:11 PM
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5. Huh. I read this as a poem in which a subject reveals how her mother's

care left her conditioned to deny herself. But your interp works, too, of course.

Carol Snow has this amazing ability to construct poems that are somehow hyper-focused and expansive enough to contain several layers of meaning.

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