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wordstrumpet: The Important Looking Men (with a Note from Mairéad Byrne)
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Wednesday, December 12, 2007. The Important Looking Men (with a Note from Mairéad Byrne). Late one October night I read all of Mairéad Byrne's Talk Poetry. In one addictive sitting, greedily, as if it were a plate of hot onion and cauliflower pakoras, which it was. I asked her to say a few words about her poem "The Important Looking Men," her crisp and spirited book or anything else that struck her fancy, and her comments follow the poem. The Important Looking Men.
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wordstrumpet: Speechless
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Sunday, December 09, 2007. Woody Allen on the WGA strike, via the union web site. Have been a bit speechless myself, for different reasons. It's amazing how sick you can get when you put your mind to it. Actually overdosing on the vitamins and so on but would much rather be out on the picket line. What say you / soldiers of the lyre, we wait / for some o’clock and then stop / singing? From "Poetry and Sorrow in a 'Right-to-Sing' State". Living Writers Reading Series.
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wordstrumpet: Nixon Vets the Candidates
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Saturday, January 12, 2008. Nixon Vets the Candidates. Dick thinks Susan could have been a little more tactful about his White House years in the comment box. Over the weekend. But he's grudgingly consented to give us the benefit of his counsel on some of his old enemies and new bêtes noire:. Another rich boy who thinks he has it coming to him, like Kennedy. He'll probably fold, like his candy-ass father. Talked a big game. Plus the bastard compared me. Up to these da...
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wordstrumpet: Self Portrait of Sylvia Plath as Wittgenstein
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Friday, January 18, 2008. Self Portrait of Sylvia Plath as Wittgenstein. My copies of Court Green. Arrived, featuring a Sylvia Plath Dossier. Just starting to read it but this jumped out at me, from Jason Schneiderman's five-part "Anachronistic Fair Use Self Portraits of 20th Century Sylvia Plath (with 'Daddy' Fixation)":. Self Portrait of Sylvia Plath as Wittgenstein. 1 There is a Daddy. 11 The Daddy is the case. 12 The Daddy does not do. 13 The Daddy does not do.
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wordstrumpet: Rebecca Harding Davis: Lost and Found in Family Pictures
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Monday, August 16, 2010. Rebecca Harding Davis: Lost and Found in Family Pictures. The picture on the right is Rebecca Harding Davis. Is the picture on the left the same woman? Click to enlarge image). Recently the pictures above came to light in the collection of an older family member (who scanned them), and we're trying to identify the woman on the left. That would be my impression as well. What do you think, dear reader? Are there people who specialize in it?
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wordstrumpet: I Am Not a Crook's Head
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Monday, July 20, 2009. I Am Not a Crook's Head. Courtesy of Daniel Bouchard: micro cartoon-clips of Tricky on the march! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Living Writers Reading Series. Thursday, September 30, 2010. 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm. Visit to Rob Wilson's class,. Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Visual Arts Performance Space. Visit to Rae Armantrout's class,. Tuesday, October 5, 1:40 pm). Reading with Jerome Sala. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. At St Marks Church.
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wordstrumpet: The More Things Change Dept.
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. The More Things Change Dept. A narrative poet at court, singing of great deeds, enjoyed a higher standing than the fool and was allowed to wear fine clothes; yet I suspect that the ballad singer was more often than not a second-rate stooge, flattering his monarch lyrically, while the fool must often have been a first-rate character, giving his monarch good advice in bad puns.". A Subtreasury of American Humor. Living Writers Reading Series.
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wordstrumpet: The Poet, Burning His Own Work
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. The Poet, Burning His Own Work. Carl Spitzweg, "The Poor Poet" (1839). Swell post, though a bit too close for comfort in the been there, done that dept. Eg on top today I have another chapter in that stirring oft-told saga. Poet drowns in own image. Come visit some time and we can nibble soggy crusts and seashells. Holy toledo, a visitation from beyond! Hello, Tom - fantastic to see you here. And you have a blog! Well, not all of us can be as...
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wordstrumpet: Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction
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Scenes from a life ruined by poetry. Monday, December 03, 2007. Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction. Photo by Timo Ketonen. Season of faxed cremation papers, which one shouldn't read, one really shouldn't. But here's arguably the best blurb ever:. This from Sarah Manguso, writing about Jennifer L. Knox's. I'm looking forward to the book, and perhaps (with a virulent head cold) living up to its title. But what else might one expect from someone capable of writing these lines, as Manguso did in her book. Tuesday, ...
