tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post6661646965803764805..comments2023-11-05T04:15:44.564-08:00Comments on Robert Frost's Banjo: Two Helix PoemsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-53463181576610292010-02-23T15:46:42.753-08:002010-02-23T15:46:42.753-08:00Hi Dominic: Glad you liked them! This is official...Hi Dominic: Glad you liked them! This is officially the end of the sequence. Interesting what you say: Eberle has been thinking about setting some of this to music.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-59515694618531916672010-02-23T14:49:12.734-08:002010-02-23T14:49:12.734-08:00Enjoyed these - especially the noisy Helix #11! Yo...Enjoyed these - especially the noisy Helix #11! You've got me imagining music for piano, harmonium and a shortwave radio(the sort of thing young John Cage did).Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-81942746443114970552010-02-23T09:44:52.325-08:002010-02-23T09:44:52.325-08:00Hi Pure Fiction: Thanks so much for stopping by &a...Hi Pure Fiction: Thanks so much for stopping by & for choosing to follow! Always glad to have another reader in the homeland of my ancestors, & glad you liked the poems. I'll swing by your place for a look-see later on today!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-65464157359451589552010-02-23T02:42:00.549-08:002010-02-23T02:42:00.549-08:00Hi, I just stumbled across you via TFE's blog,...Hi, I just stumbled across you via TFE's blog, and have to say I like both these so much, particularly the first one- <br />Snow on Council Mountain dyed orange at sunset<br />A redwinged blackbird’s slurred whistle<br />are two of my favourite lines<br />Beautiful, and the images conjure up a incredibly vivid picture of a landscape much bigger than I'm used to dealing with here in Ireland.Pure Fictionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04265599089734430505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-60819962731960082852010-02-22T16:25:25.456-08:002010-02-22T16:25:25.456-08:00Hi Karen: I've been very gratified by the resp...Hi Karen: I've been very gratified by the response to these, very much so, & I appreciate your kind words. I do think this sequence is close to an end--I even think there's some chance that #11 might be the last, tho I don't want to go out too far on a limb. There may be one or possibly two more.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-23791643660920339452010-02-22T15:37:57.184-08:002010-02-22T15:37:57.184-08:00I've told you before how much I like these Hel...I've told you before how much I like these Helix poems. (What's the plural?) No matter what you call them, I like the disparate images that somehow make sense to me.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-27830168906530456882010-02-22T13:09:19.759-08:002010-02-22T13:09:19.759-08:00Hi Alan, Willow & HKatz
Alan: Thanks! That&#...Hi Alan, Willow & HKatz<br /><br />Alan: Thanks! That's definitely part of the idea--fragmentary writing.<br /><br />Willow: Funny! Of course, I mean the Fell St that runs along the Panhandle in San Francisco. Glad you liked it!<br /><br />HKatz: Yes, as I mentioned to Alan above! Thanks for the comment--I like that sound wave line pretty well if I do say so myself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-5867077906129185222010-02-22T07:40:49.145-08:002010-02-22T07:40:49.145-08:00I love the way you can pick lines from these poems...<i>I love the way you can pick lines from these poems almost at random and enjoy them in their own right.</i><br /><br />I agree - each line and image contributes to the whole, but there are many that are just entire poems in and of themselves ("A sound wave cycling in a square white room","A dogwood blooming a quarter mile distant" are a couple of favorites)<br /><br />@ willow<br />The Dr. Fell poem reminds me of the novel, <i>Hannibal</i>; Dr. Fell was Hannibal Lecter's alias...HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-72406718890737831092010-02-22T05:55:17.243-08:002010-02-22T05:55:17.243-08:00Fell St. brought this to my quirky little head...
...Fell St. brought this to my quirky little head...<br /><br />I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, <br />The reason why I cannot tell; <br />But this I know, and know full well, <br />I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.<br /><br /><br />I especially loved "bruised July sky" and "crepe myrtle giddy with blossoms".Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-22319764815628636992010-02-22T04:52:46.520-08:002010-02-22T04:52:46.520-08:00I love the way you can pick lines from these poems...I love the way you can pick lines from these poems almost at random and enjoy them in their own right.Alan Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01015127443616786425noreply@blogger.com