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Sparks From Stones: April 2015
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Friday, April 10, 2015. There is a memorable poem by Martin Kratz in most recent but one issue of The Rialto. Called 'Curriculum'. I say it is memorable because I remembered it, after skimming through the issue when it arrived, before mislaying it. Interestingly I had misremembered the title as being 'Testudo' which is a key word in the culminating final stanza of the poem. We go to fetch them in, someone shouts: Testudo! In silence, they wait for instruction.
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Sparks From Stones: November 2014
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. A manuscript is not a manuscript without a coffee stain" – Joseph Brodsky. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Software designer and Infrequent poet. View my complete profile. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, and Marya Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya — each from different novels published in 1869 — and each drawn as spiritual characters . Poems: A limbo large and broad. Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
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Sparks From Stones: April 2014
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Saturday, April 5, 2014. Never trust a poet who can drive. Nothing ever happens to novelists. Except - this. They are born. They get sick, they get well, they hang around the inkwell. They leave home, with their stuff in a hired van. They learn to drive, unlike poets (poets don't drive. Never trust a poet who can drive. Never trust a poet at the wheel. If he can. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Software designer and Infrequent poet.
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Sparks From Stones: Kilter
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Monday, June 2, 2014. Catching up on Anthony Lawrence's Signal Flare. 8230; the long opening poem, an elegy so clearly reminiscent of Slessor's Five Bells. Has these lines which nicely draw out the word 'kilter' from it usual environment, highlighting its strangeness. Your absence the start. Of a long playing record. Of scenes and conversations. That are not out of place. Or kilter with you death …. And in The Age of Epigram. When an out-of-kilter cummerbund.
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Sparks From Stones: June 2014
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Monday, June 2, 2014. Catching up on Anthony Lawrence's Signal Flare. 8230; the long opening poem, an elegy so clearly reminiscent of Slessor's Five Bells. Has these lines which nicely draw out the word 'kilter' from it usual environment, highlighting its strangeness. Your absence the start. Of a long playing record. Of scenes and conversations. That are not out of place. Or kilter with you death …. And in The Age of Epigram. When an out-of-kilter cummerbund.
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Sparks From Stones: August 2014
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Sunday, August 17, 2014. Pope remarked, in relation to his heavily corrected and interlined original workbook for his Iliad. I believe you would find upon examination that those parts which have been the most corrected read the easiest.". That strew'd with warriors dead the Phrygian plain,. And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain. Which were reworked into this. That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign. The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
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Sparks From Stones: October 2013
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. The recent brief uproar on plagiarism still vexes me. There was much public condemnation of poetic processes which involved shallow reworkings, borrowings, appropriation, and theft - choose your terminology to match your level of moral outrage. The first instance that came to my attention was the case of an Australian poet who had apparently lifted phrases from a considerable number of sources to concoct a prize-winning poem. Now we can...
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Sparks From Stones: October 2014
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Friday, October 3, 2014. One of the neglected books published in that momentous year 1922 is Robert Graves' On English Poetry. William Heinemann). From the vantage point of 2014 its 61 short and chatty sections read very like blog posts. Sadly much of this book and much of Graves' Poetic Unreason and other studies. 1925, Cecil Palmer) are omitted — following Graves' own later abridgements — from the Collected Writings on Poetry. In club or messroom let them sit,.
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Sparks From Stones: May 2012
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From cold stones sparks of fire do fly. Thursday, May 31, 2012. Poor Monk, dying. Thelonious and the Baroness. In the NY Times about Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a new book of her photos, and an exhibition at Gallery at Hermès, brought bak to mind one of the first poems I read by August Kleinzahler . 'Love Poem' from 1989 book Earthquake Weather. The poem starts with a striking mixing of registers. As long as the cat comes home. And the skinheads keep. To their concrete shell, over the fence.
