tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post8000915909816819471..comments2023-11-05T04:15:44.564-08:00Comments on Robert Frost's Banjo: Helix #6Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-41814282427908271112010-02-09T08:52:34.299-08:002010-02-09T08:52:34.299-08:00Hi Dick & Kat
Dick: Thanks--as someone who gr...Hi Dick & Kat<br /><br />Dick: Thanks--as someone who grew up with the Sears Xmas catalog's arrival being a major annual event, I really appreciate that.<br /><br />Kat: It's a combination of the two, with a pretty liberal amount of free association thrown in. These days I rarely pre-conceive where a poem will go to, but I just trust that it will reach somewhere reasonably satisfactory! It's hard to say whether memories or current observations are more vivid--maybe just vivid in different ways. For instance, the line "A red plush theater seat in the blue light" calls up a memory that's extremely vivid & bittersweet--not that knowing that is important to the poem--even tho as written it isn't meant to carry that off by itself. But the cattails & the doublewide, for instance, were things I'd seen that day.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-63337964796245289352010-02-09T06:59:14.705-08:002010-02-09T06:59:14.705-08:00This is my favourite line particularly: "You ...This is my favourite line particularly: "You have lived several lives & it’s come to this"<br /><br />John, do you write these from on-the-spot observations or is it a vision inside your head? I tend to do both, but often it's the memories of things that are more crystalized.Kat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-76659394399027271802010-02-08T13:49:17.742-08:002010-02-08T13:49:17.742-08:00What a glorious Sears Roebuck of images!What a glorious Sears Roebuck of images!Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-20708845257588676602010-02-08T06:21:13.275-08:002010-02-08T06:21:13.275-08:00Hi Willow: So glad you liked it! There were actua...Hi Willow: So glad you liked it! There were actually two heifers on Indian Valley Road the other evening, but I took a bit of "poetic license."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-16404496502009825502010-02-08T05:13:58.454-08:002010-02-08T05:13:58.454-08:00This one conjurs so many pleasurable images, Jack....This one conjurs so many pleasurable images, Jack. Nice. I especially enjoyed the black heifer running loose.Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.com