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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Extending the metaphor

In Happy family poem, Jane shore writes
Between the sealed lips of each fortune cookie,
a white scrap of tongue poked out


Its through oracles that the future is spoken.

In pg 62 with Jane Kenyon's 'In the Nursing home' Ted Kooser explains extended simile.

What was the first metaphor?


Exercise: Extend each metaphor that you meet.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Novelty of an old book

I'm rereading this book I like. some of the excerpts in the book are something I can relate to now. What Boonie calls leg trap is what I call being snowed in.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Kim Addonizio's line in 'Ordinary Genius'

Life is a constant, unending construction and destruction ...





Cigarettes
Gin
Thom Gunn - The Butcher's son
Elizabeth Bishop - First Death in Nova Scotia
People of the future
Look to the future
Animals are passing from our lives
Common Dreams
Counter punch
The nation
CrooksandLiars

Better second half

When I picked Jamie Oliver: Turning up the heat, I didnt know anything about Jamie Oliver. That part would have been satisfied by reading the first half of the book on Jamie's rise as a great chef with successful TV shows. That could have easily been 'all the story' and then we go home.

But what follows next is 'Oliver's twist'(taking on the already punned) and this is where it gets more interesting. Jamie's bringing about awareness amongst the general public regarding good food change needed in schools by his 'feed me better' campaign, his 'fifteen foundation' for providing resources to talented youngsters are all great things to know.

'He represents the power of the individual, even in a global age when everything is dominted by mega corporations'- Gill Hudson.

'Its a Fame kind of movie,the coach who comes and whips the no-hope baseball team into shape, and changes more than the kids- thats what attracted me to the story.'- Michael Kuhn.

The message and the story are all in the story, only it could have been better told. With too many people quoted in the first half, it was difficult to maintain clarity.I feel that the story would have more life, if it was an autobiography.

3/5. 5.29.2009

Friday, March 2, 2012

A baby

can wheedle
milk
out of grandma's green bangles
out of mama's shin in black tracks