I came across Philomela in Has poetry changed?. Itylus, a character in that myth is an inspiration for another poem. Myths charm so many poets.
Isles of Scilly
Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Miscellany
Author: Joe Brainard
'I remember' section is funny. A movie on it.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Makes one wonder how you would react in the end in the place of 'Guy'.
Jane Froman
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Makes one wonder how you would react in the end in the place of 'Guy'.
Jane Froman
Place
Author: James Longenbach
Venice has keys in it. It is the title poem.
Greek Myths and art are in many of the poems.
With some say, the poet captures the mutability of myth
Derain painter
Honore Desmond Sharrer painter
Diodorus Siculus historian
cerements
twice told tale of how fig trees are saved from the frost
Meleager poet
Madonna dell'Orto church
Tintoretto painter
Zattere
Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
Rio di San Barnaba
Tibullus
Ceres (mythology) - cereal
Carl Andre Stone field
square paper clips with heart at the centre
Aeolus - blue painting
Orpheus - Sati Savitri
Daedalus - Ariadne - Labyrinth
Naxos
Ampelos
Leto
Anacreon
Hephaestus
Gadara in Three Epitaphs. With grave codes only one is possible.
An interview
Greek Myths and art are in many of the poems.
With some say, the poet captures the mutability of myth
Derain painter
Honore Desmond Sharrer painter
Diodorus Siculus historian
cerements
twice told tale of how fig trees are saved from the frost
Meleager poet
Madonna dell'Orto church
Tintoretto painter
Zattere
Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
Rio di San Barnaba
Tibullus
Ceres (mythology) - cereal
Carl Andre Stone field
square paper clips with heart at the centre
Aeolus - blue painting
Orpheus - Sati Savitri
Daedalus - Ariadne - Labyrinth
Naxos
Ampelos
Leto
Anacreon
Hephaestus
Gadara in Three Epitaphs. With grave codes only one is possible.
An interview
What roars in the morning
Author: Michael Ryan
The first poem is 60th birday dinner . Age and morning have been in his mind before in Poem at Thirty.
Airplane food is a poem where an insipid act brings about a paper pop up of furious characters.You can imagine what a tapestry he can weave with sewing needle in sandwich.
Petting Zoo - His 'darling torturer' and the fate of the animals. The playful mood changes to grim in 'This morning' poem.
Mug. I am reminded of my favourite yellow mug that I remember from a diet time.
Garbage truck. An unusual subject to voice its feelings but being the sole consolidator of what we throw, it sure has a say.
'Miss Joy' - But she couldnt give her son the chance to flourish
unless she gave herself the chance in spirit
A poem and postmortem
More poems
a review
Airplane food is a poem where an insipid act brings about a paper pop up of furious characters.You can imagine what a tapestry he can weave with sewing needle in sandwich.
Petting Zoo - His 'darling torturer' and the fate of the animals. The playful mood changes to grim in 'This morning' poem.
Mug. I am reminded of my favourite yellow mug that I remember from a diet time.
Garbage truck. An unusual subject to voice its feelings but being the sole consolidator of what we throw, it sure has a say.
'Miss Joy' - But she couldnt give her son the chance to flourish
unless she gave herself the chance in spirit
A poem and postmortem
More poems
a review
Real and Abstract
Author: Laura Kasischke
Some prose poems.
Before the poems begins there's a riddle.
In the poems too, there are three poems that are titled riddle. the poet finds the complexity of life of a single person puzzling.
'A wolf rolling in ashes' in The photograph album in the junk shop seems to be a line from the Bible but I dont understand it. There's another reference to Bible being saved in a fire that took the family.
How many hearts does an earthworm have, a question that you are likely to ask after reading apoem that inspired an artist to do this painting.
In 'Look', the commitment of 'a girl at the bookstore determined to read every f***ing magazine on this shelf for free' reminded me of Joe Brainard's determination to tear page 48 of every book in the Boston Public Library.
'Near Misses' is something everyone can relate to. 'I remembered to blow out the candle burning on the table beside me'. Good for her. Have you ever seen Ikea candle warnings? The first one had me hooked. Something that new parents need to remember, replacing the candle with the baby.
In 'Atoms on Loan', 'Who are we? without one another,'
Abigor
The poet makes abstractness palatable by sneaking it in like mom hiding the veggies in your food.
Some prose poems.
Before the poems begins there's a riddle.
In the poems too, there are three poems that are titled riddle. the poet finds the complexity of life of a single person puzzling.
'A wolf rolling in ashes' in The photograph album in the junk shop seems to be a line from the Bible but I dont understand it. There's another reference to Bible being saved in a fire that took the family.
How many hearts does an earthworm have, a question that you are likely to ask after reading apoem that inspired an artist to do this painting.
In 'Look', the commitment of 'a girl at the bookstore determined to read every f***ing magazine on this shelf for free' reminded me of Joe Brainard's determination to tear page 48 of every book in the Boston Public Library.
'Near Misses' is something everyone can relate to. 'I remembered to blow out the candle burning on the table beside me'. Good for her. Have you ever seen Ikea candle warnings? The first one had me hooked. Something that new parents need to remember, replacing the candle with the baby.
In 'Atoms on Loan', 'Who are we? without one another,'
Abigor
The poet makes abstractness palatable by sneaking it in like mom hiding the veggies in your food.
Puerto Rican folktales
The Three Wishes: A Collection of Puerto Rican Folktales
'The Three Wishes' book has returning characters Juan Bobo, Lazy Peter. Young men vying for the princess in marriage, fighting devil, dragon and witches.
'The Animal Musicians' similar to Town Musicians of Bremen reminded me of The Sky Is Falling.
'The Ant in search of her leg' has a sequence of actions that are told in the whole sequence - Cumulative tale, in the manner of This Is the House That Jack Built.
An Indian Folktale - King and seven sons
An Indian Folktale - King and seven sons
In Defense of Sainty: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
In Defense of Sainty: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
In the hands of teachers and painters
Chesterton's essay on chalk.
The first sketch article referred to Pocahontas. I learnt of her yesterday in America: The Story of Us. I heard of her before but didnt know anything about the person.
Willem De Kooning - Door to the River
Occupied by daisies
Connie Wanek 's poem Butter starts in a modern day kitchen but takes us to a time of Butter Molds. When the subject is common, the time dimension adds texture to the poem.
The first line 'Butter like love' now wants me to go back in time to love of that time too.
She has written on peaches and garlic. On a note similar to the peaches poem, I read of an apples poem.
The first line 'Butter like love' now wants me to go back in time to love of that time too.
She has written on peaches and garlic. On a note similar to the peaches poem, I read of an apples poem.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Iowa review Vol 38 No 2
The Iowa Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, Fall 2008)
Ra hee duk -The custom of Aerial Burial and other poems - xerosis
short short stories of Alex Epstein leave the effect of a Grapeshot on a reader subjecting them to different transformations in each little work.
The back cover has the names of contributors in a poem format with rhyme and all.
In "Note from the Estrscans', brandon Krieg uses a powerful metaphor.
'.. the stream will run through
the comb of your bones without straightening'.
The back cover has the names of contributors in a poem format with rhyme and all.
In "Note from the Estrscans', brandon Krieg uses a powerful metaphor.
'.. the stream will run through
the comb of your bones without straightening'.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Long long ago
Author: Greg Trine
I liked this book better than the 'Dinos are Forever' for its time travel. Pro superhero Jo itches for some action and so does her dog. they time travel to 1850s California. There they are looking to capture Wyatt Burp who causes trouble with his burp. Even though Jo is a superhero, she cant swim. With her sidekick's help she can overcome evil intentions from any era(thats another big concept).
The fog is described as thick as milk shake and peanut butter, which children can relate to. I also like how the concept of tsunami is built from ripple to waves to tsunami even if its a metaphor for the rise of crime. Because the people from a century ago are not familiar with superheroes, they mistake Jo and Raymond for witches which shows how people think in the times they live. Some of this concepts might be big for children to understand but hey dont be surprised if they give their explanations.
Dinos come alive
Jo Schmo is a fourth grader. She just received a mystery package. with its contents, Jo and her sidekick dog Raymond are about to become full scale superheroes with a superfast vehicle. With help from her retired Sheriff grandfather, Jo is all set to take on the bad elements, even if they are smart with a PhD like the mad scientist. But what are dinos doing in this story? They are extinct. Who has the power to being them to life. May be a super hero but a super hero wouldn wreak havoc. Or wait we have to ask Jo if her manual has a section about it.
In the end, she even learns the magic lofty word that can make her fly like a real superhero.
The illustrations are sketches like comics. Some really make you wonder.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Looking at a thing myriad times
Author: Richard Grossman
With simple language and logic, the poet reverses the universally accepted truths. In 'Marriage' poem, it seems to the surviving partner that death liberated his partner to a happier future. Many stories convince us that life is all about love and here comes this poem.
The titles are on the upper right corner, obscure. Its fun to read the poem and then the title and then the poem with new eyes. The characters - shepherd and the animals, are fixed and so is the stanza format.
The poems move from a aha single line to a whole wonder when they are about specific animals. Here each animal gets its character. The animals are no longer a cluster.
The poems move from a aha single line to a whole wonder when they are about specific animals. Here each animal gets its character. The animals are no longer a cluster.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Spillway Issue 18: Games people play
spillway
Fairy tales fast forwarded to future, set in modern time
'This morning' by Nan Fry is a fill in the missing letters poem. An apple poem elsewhere is looking out from inside of an apple.
Punch and Judy
Emmett Kelly
Mazel tov
Thibodaux
From the missing letters poem, I take an inspiration but in the opposite direction, word stuffing like Bit stuffing but meaningful insertion.
dilligence(sic)
A contributor
Games People Play
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