tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post926025608335458296..comments2023-11-05T04:15:44.564-08:00Comments on Robert Frost's Banjo: Grace #2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-71561989312372859172010-03-02T04:27:07.814-08:002010-03-02T04:27:07.814-08:00Hi Dominic: Thanks! I'll have to check out Po...Hi Dominic: Thanks! I'll have to check out Poulenc--I don't have much knowledge of his music. Thanks for the link. That was a really fertile time for creativity in France for certain--from before the turn of the century well into the 30s. Have you ever read a book called "The Banquet Years" by Roger Shattuck? He looks at this time period, esp. from say the 1890s to 1920 thru the careers of Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Satie & Alfred Jarry. Although Shattuck has a bit of a prickly edge toward surrealism which is political at base I suspect, the book overall is a good read--I'm pretty sure it's still in print.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-56964840773040532952010-03-02T04:18:26.603-08:002010-03-02T04:18:26.603-08:00Hi Kat & HKatz
Kat: Well, it will be awhile o...Hi Kat & HKatz<br /><br />Kat: Well, it will be awhile on the Alcools project! As I said in another comment, it means a lot to me that you've shelled out $ to buy these books. It's funny, but the image of the paperback Alcools came to mind before I decided to finish my translation--these poems were written a little while back--I think the segue was in my own sub-conscious!<br /><br />HKatz: Thanks for that--I'm very flattered by your close reading of my poems--I do very much appreciate your involvement with them!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-38538330794878014552010-03-01T20:03:17.107-08:002010-03-01T20:03:17.107-08:00It's great to come across a line like this one...It's great to come across a line like this one:<br /><br /><i>a single instant that stands in for forever like a luna moth in a truck stop sodium lamp</i><br /><br />and just think <i>This is right. This is how it is.</i><br /><br />Also your use of language can be wonderfully synesthetic:<br /><i>stars are shattered glass like a C major 7 chord that won’t stop ringing</i>HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-14479950911447560442010-03-01T17:51:32.317-08:002010-03-01T17:51:32.317-08:00I like that suble link to "Alcools". Nic...I like that suble link to "Alcools". Nice segue. I'm going to have to start filling up a piggy bank for a John Hayes poetry-purchase fund.Kat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-506299113405337402010-03-01T14:57:14.454-08:002010-03-01T14:57:14.454-08:00I'll add these to my reading list!
I should h...I'll add these to my reading list!<br /><br />I should have read more Apollinaire. Am interested in things French from that period. Just getting into playing some Poulenc - one of his "Mouvements Perpetuels". Not me, but:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6xO2WkOls&feature=relatedDominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-10288375008867636982010-03-01T07:24:46.376-08:002010-03-01T07:24:46.376-08:00Hi Willow: So glad you liked it! Thanks.Hi Willow: So glad you liked it! Thanks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-35644440798131202322010-03-01T05:34:01.617-08:002010-03-01T05:34:01.617-08:00Beautiful. I know that PA turnpike well. Love that...Beautiful. I know that PA turnpike well. Love that ubiquitous willow tree. (giggling over Dave wishing he had written this)Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-76563687761761447562010-03-01T05:31:59.602-08:002010-03-01T05:31:59.602-08:00Hi Dave: Many thanks--there are two more in the se...Hi Dave: Many thanks--there are two more in the sequence--I believe they'll post on Thursday & Saturday.<br /><br />Thanks again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-46293063288274336772010-03-01T04:29:52.238-08:002010-03-01T04:29:52.238-08:00and a reader fraught with magnificent images and a...and a reader fraught with magnificent images and a brain that will eventually catch up. I can't tell you how impressed I am. I wish I'd written it.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.com